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The experimental method in biology

T. H. Morgan and the theory of the gene

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, France

    Edward Manier

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This paper is an expanded version of one read at the Philosophy of Science Association meetings in Pittsburgh, October, 1968. Research supported in part by NSF Grant GS 1236 and O'Brien Fund, University of Notre Dame.

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Manier, E. The experimental method in biology. Synthese 20, 185–205 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413785

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