Closure in the emergence and evolution of life: Multiple discourses or one?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 901, Issue , 2000, Pages 132-138

  Weber, Bruce H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0034019885     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06272.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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