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This paper uses the “Rashomon Effect” to understand the inherent challenges in a pluralistic theory of science with an equally complex narrative history. It is a reply to Erik I. Svensson’s, “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.”
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Smocovitis, V.B. (2023). History, Evolution, and the “Rashomon Effect”: A Reply to Svensson. In: Dickins, T.E., Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory. Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_4
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