A Crude Defence of Selfishness
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Evolution and selfishness
(This paper is not a paper; in other words, not even a draft. It is a compilation of different themes I have been thinking of during the last months. Being a compilation, the different "chapters" are not coherent. When I made changes in some chapters, these changes would have entailed that I change the content in other chapters too. But I have not had the time to do so. There are therefore all ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Brock Review
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1188-9071,1188-9071
DOI: 10.26522/br.v12i1.397