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Essay Review: “What Made Ernst Unique?”

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  1. Departments of Zoology and History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32601, USA

    Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

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Mayr, Ernst. What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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Smocovitis, V.B. Essay Review: “What Made Ernst Unique?”. J Hist Biol 38, 609–614 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-005-4046-y

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