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Special issue on boundary rhetorics and the work of interdisciplinarity

A rhetoric of interdisciplinary scientific discourse: Textual criticism of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the origin of species

Pages 91-111 | Published online: 19 Jun 2008

Notes

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