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By evolvingthoughts on January 31, 2007.

Can't talk. Eating. Paper. Grant application. Start of School Year for Son. Eating...

Reading this:

"Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology" (Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Kaplan)

and this:



"Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology" (Alex Rosenberg)

Do likewise...

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