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Review of Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther’s Our Genes - Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 394 pp. $90 (hardcover), $37 (paperback).

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Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 394 pp. $90 (hardcover), $37 (paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2025

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Miriam Miyagi
Marina DiMarco*
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Miriam Miyagi*
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Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 92 , Issue 3 , July 2025 , pp. 768 - 771
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