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Darwin and the end of providence: the role of chance in evolution

Curtis Johnson: Darwin’s dice: the idea of chance in the thought of Charles Darwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, xxxii+253pp, $31.95 HB

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Flannery, M.A. Darwin and the end of providence: the role of chance in evolution. Metascience 26, 145–148 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0139-9

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