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Dancing with DNA and Flirting with the Ghost of Lamarck

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West-Eberhard, M.J. Dancing with DNA and Flirting with the Ghost of Lamarck. Biol Philos 22, 439–451 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-006-9034-x

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