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The peculiar power of historical science

Adrian Currie: Scientific knowledge and the deep past: History matters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 72 pp, ₤15.00 PB

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Bennett, B.S. The peculiar power of historical science. Metascience 29, 301–304 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00520-4

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