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On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism
Are we “historical accidents” of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, Islands in the Cosmos, Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic” evolutionary debate.
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Public Library of Science
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781109/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259 |
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| author | Swartz, Brian Andrew |
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| description | Are we “historical accidents” of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, Islands in the Cosmos, Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic” evolutionary debate. |
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| spelling | pubmed-27811092009-12-17 On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism Swartz, Brian Andrew PLoS Biol Book Review/Science in the Media Are we “historical accidents” of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, Islands in the Cosmos, Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic” evolutionary debate. Public Library of Science 2009-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2781109/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259 Text en Brian Andrew Swartz . http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
| spellingShingle | Book Review/Science in the Media Swartz, Brian Andrew On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism |
| title | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism |
| title_full | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism |
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| title_full_unstemmed | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism |
| title_short | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism |
| title_sort | on the “duel” nature of history: revisiting contingency versus determinism |
| topic | Book Review/Science in the Media |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781109/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259 |
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