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Practice and Place in Twentieth-Century Field Biology: A Comment

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Kohler, R.E. Practice and Place in Twentieth-Century Field Biology: A Comment. J Hist Biol 45, 579–586 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-011-9300-x

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