Vital StatisticsFootnote∗

∗Thanks to Kim England, Richard Wright, Elvin Wyly, and the anonymous referees of this journal for their very helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this article. I also want to thank Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen for organizing the crit–quant sessions at the San Francisco AAG meetings in April 2007, where the first version of this article was presented. As is usual, I take full and sole responsibility for the opinions expressed in this article.

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