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This work was supported by grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and from the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, which I acknowledge with thanks. I also am grateful to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, for its hospitality during 1980–81.

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Sober, E. Equilibrium explanation. Philos Stud 43, 201–210 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00372383

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