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The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
Brett Calcott & Kim Sterelny (eds.)
MIT Press (2011)
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Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.Author Profiles
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