Thinking of biology: The paradoxical platypus

BioScience

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 211-218

  Hall, Brian K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0032959077     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313511     Document Type: Review

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