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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Is Directed Variation More Common in Culture?

Gregory asks whether directed variation predominates in man-made systems; Mark says cultural systems trend more directed but retain surprising randomness.

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