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MacPherson, R.C. Essay Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: Vestiges of Creation, Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain. Journal of the History of Biology 34, 565–579 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012951807944
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