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The term “evolution” is so solidly established both in everyday language and in scientific jargon that we accept it habitually, without sensing the need to analyze its exact meaning. We have used it in that way in what has preceded, recognizing that the reader will know sufficiently well what is intended.

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Lotka, A.J. (1998). Untitled [On the Direction of Time]. In: Analytical Theory of Biological Populations. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9176-1_2

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