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Evolutionary Epistemology and Its Implications for Humankind - Franz M. Wuketits, Albany, NY:Suny Press,1990, 262 pp. US$59.50 cloth. ISBN 0-7914-0285-1. US$19.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-0286-X. State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246-0001, USA.

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Ullica Segerstråle
Ullica Segerstråle*
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Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 126 - 129
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