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Darwin machines and the nature of knowledge
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1994)
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Bringing together evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, Henry Plotkin presents a new science of knowledge, one that traces an unbreakable link between instinct and our ability to know.Links
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