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It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

by Richard C. Lewontin · 2000

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It Ain't Necessarily So combines sharp criticism of scientific claims with lucid expositions of the state of current scientific knowledge. Among the subjects discussed are heredity, natural selection, and genetic determinism.

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