Closure, function, emergence, semiosis, and life: The same idea? Reflections on the concrete and the abstract in theoretical biology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 901, Issue , 2000, Pages 187-197

  Emmeche, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; SCIENCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0034020343     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06278.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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