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Haldane and Mayr: a response to Rao and Nanjundiah (2016)

Sarkar, Sahotra (Author)

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Pages: 151-154

URI: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-016-0101-6

DOI: 10.1007/s40656-016-0101-6

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The discussion with Rao and Nanjundiah about the history of interactions between J. B. S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr is further extended in this note. The nature of the dispute about beanbag genetics is explicated as consisting of two separate issues, one about the role of mathematical analysis in evolutionary biology, and the other about the value of single-locus genic models.

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