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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
Brian A. Gladue*
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Program in Human Sexuality, Laboratory of Psychoendocrinology Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 7 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Medicine and Political Behavior , August 1988 , pp. 72 - 76
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