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on what one wants those terms to mean, so disputes about them are semantic: but not merely so. Unpacking words and concepts is essential to understanding the natural phenomena to which they are meant to refer. As to Godfrey-Smith's little book, it provides an authoritative but easy starting place for readers of Current Biology who want to root out tacit philosophical commitments in their discip...

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a lot of time, but paradoxically it has become more difficult to access old references, which is a pity. Publicly-funded research should be more widely and easily accessible: public funds are used to produce the research, to pay for its publication, and to pay again to read scientific papers, with the profit of scientific publishers going to shareholders rather than back to science and educatio...

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and mass balance. When put together, though, we are shown that the length of glaciers has steadily decreased since about 1850. We have a much briefer record of Arctic ice extent, which has almost halved in area in just 35 years. The most important ice in the north is on Greenland, and has a volume of 2.9 million cubic km (equivalent to more than 7 m of sea level). Greenland has been repeatedly ...

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