Are there laws in biology?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48 (2):234 – 246 (1970)
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Studies in the logic of explanation.Carl Gustav Hempel & Paul Oppenheim - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (2):135-175.

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