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Reform for the evolutionary social sciences or new theory of human nature?

Gillian Barker: Beyond Biofatalism: Human nature for an evolving world. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 176pp, $35.00 HB

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Downes, S.M. Reform for the evolutionary social sciences or new theory of human nature?. Metascience 25, 479–485 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0115-4

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