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Discussion: Coefficients, Effects, and Genic Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Alexander Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg*
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Department of Philosophy Syracuse University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 332 - 338
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Copyright © 1983 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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The author is indebted to John Beatty, David Hull, Michael Ruse, Elliott Sober and Mary Williams for extremely helpful comments on a previous version of this paper. No agreement with his views should be assumed however. Research supported by a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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