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Ontogeny does not recapitulate phylogeny, it creates phylogeny: a review of The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought, by Robert J. Richards

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Book ID: 109085175
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 91 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 1520-541X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2011.00495.x

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