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Stephen Jay Gould
David Levine
Science
History of science
W.W. Norton
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-393-02492-X
OCLC
16472146
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Wonderful Life
Stephen Jay Gould
The New York Review of Books
biological determinism
Peter Medawar
Isaiah Berlin
determinism
The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani
"New York Times Review"

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