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I find the work extremely original and philosophically quite sound. Lewens's work successfully removes a lot of the irrelevant issues that contrast material theories of evolution by natural selection with notions of human design. --Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University I had long thought that the topic of function in biology was exhausted. Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens's splendid new book, shows that I was quite wrong. Lewens unites a deep understanding of biology with a keen nose for a philosophical problem, and he has produced a work that is insightful and (just as important) highly interesting. This book will give an old problem really new life, and must be the starting point for all future discussion. --Michael Ruse, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

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Tim Lewens is University Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.

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