On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism.
Are we “historical accidents” of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, , Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic” evolutionary debate.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7b8422deccf4e2697472293298d30b52022-12-21T23:12:39ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852009-12-0171210.1371/journal.pbio.1000259On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism.Brian Andrew SwartzAre we “historical accidents” of an undirected evolutionary history? In his recent book, , Dale Russell addresses this question, and Brian Swartz reviews his synthesis of this “cosmic” evolutionary debate.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781109/?tool=EBI |
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| title | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. |
| title_full | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. |
| title_fullStr | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. |
| title_short | On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism. |
| title_sort | on the duel nature of history revisiting contingency versus determinism |
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