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The pitfalls of Darwinian “progress”. A comment on “Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics” by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin

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Schubert, C. The pitfalls of Darwinian “progress”. A comment on “Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics” by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin. J Bioecon 15, 325–328 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-012-9146-0

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