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The Darwinian revolution and its counterrevolutionaries then and now

Randall Fuller: The book that changed America: how Darwin’s theory of evolution ignited a nation. New York: Viking, 2017, x + 294 pp, $27.00 HB Michael J. Behe: Darwin devolves: the new science about DNA that challenges evolution. New York: HarperOne, 2019, 342 pp, $28.99 HB

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Flannery, M.A. The Darwinian revolution and its counterrevolutionaries then and now. Metascience 28, 405–413 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00444-8

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