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On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism

  • Swartz B
PLoS Biology (2009) 7(12) e1000259
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259
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Abstract

Are we “historical accidents†of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, Islands in the Cosmos, Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic†evolutionary debate.

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Swartz, B. A. (2009). On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. PLoS Biology, 7(12), e1000259. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259

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