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Taking Born to Rebel Seriously: The Need for Independent Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Frederic Townsend*
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Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
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My thanks to the commentators for their thoughtful analyses. I will respond to their comments below. I should point out that under the format for this roundtable discussion, I have not yet seen Frank Sulloway's response to my article. Any reply I might have to his response will therefore have to come later.

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