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  1. Or not. I consider myself retired from active duty and hence perhaps not a Marxist in any meaningful sense.

  2. For example,  see Allen (1975), especially pp. xix–xxiii and Chapter 4; Allen (1980), especially pp. 43–48; Allen (1983a), especially pp. 832–833; Allen (1983b), especially pp. 83–86; Allen (1984), especially pp. 713–717; Allen (1987), especially pp. 143–151; Allen (1991), especially pp. 18–21.

  3. See in particular Journal of the History of Biology 14:83–191 for a special section on “American Morphology at the Turn of the Century.”  See also Maienschein, Rainger and Benson (1981), Maienschein (1981), Benson (1981), Rainger (1981), Allen (1981), and Churchill (1981).

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Kleinman, K. Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation. J Hist Biol 56, 227–238 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09725-9

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