Diagrammatic representations for modelling biological knowledge

BioSystems

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 43-53

  Paton, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagrammatic representation; Knowledge mobilisation; Society of graphs; Verbal models

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SCIENCE; SOCIETY;

EID: 0036627779     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(02)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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