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Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism
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Temporary deleterious mass mutations relate to originations of cockroach families
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The Grip of History and the Scope for Novelty: Some Results and Open Questions on Path Dependence in Economic Processes
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Juvenile morphology in baleen whale phylogeny.
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