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Which came first, the egg-problem or the hen-solution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 84 - 86
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