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Howard L. Kaye is professor of sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and the author of The Social Meaning of Modern Biology, available from Transaction.
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Kaye, H.L. Back to nature. Society 40, 48–52 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-003-1051-7
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