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Dollo on Dollo's law: Irreversibility and the status of evolutionary laws

S. Gould

1970JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY

DOI: 10.1007/bf00137351

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Dollo's law has fallen into disrepute along with the entire enterprise that sought to abstract historical laws from the phenomena of phylogeny and I find this unfortunate for two reasons.

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GOULD, S. Dollo on dollo's law: Irreversibility and the status of evolutionary laws. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, 1970, 3: 189–212.