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Evolutionary Controversy and Biopolitics Separating Issues from Rhetoric: A Commentary on Gans' Essay “Punctuated Equilibria and Political Science”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Brian A. Gladue*
Affiliation:
Program in Human Sexuality, Laboratory of Psychoendocrinology Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105
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Further Commentary
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