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Luck versus Cunning

Denis M. Walsh: Organisms, agency and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, ix+279pp, £64.99 HB

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Dresow, M. Luck versus Cunning. Metascience 27, 79–82 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0264-0

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