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Darwin’s anthropology in the light of contemporary science

Jeremy DeSilva (ed.): A most interesting problem: what Darwin’s descent of man got right and wrong about human evolution, with an introduction by Janet Browne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, xxv + 258 pp, US$ 27.95 HB

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Salanskis, E. Darwin’s anthropology in the light of contemporary science. Metascience 31, 411–414 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00799-5

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