Nature’s Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology

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Cambridge: The MIT Press (1997)
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This volume provides a guide to the discussion among biologists and philosophersabout the role of concepts such as function and design in an evolutionary understanding oflife.

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QH331.N385 1998

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0262510979   0262011689   9780262510974

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