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Research Articles

Innovation, value-neutrality and the question of politics: unmasking the rhetorical and ideological abuse of evolutionary theory

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Pages 238-255 | Received 05 Apr 2019, Accepted 05 Apr 2019, Published online: 01 May 2019

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