Natural selection and Maxwell's demons: A semiotic approach to evolutionary biology

Semiotica

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 133-150

  Andrade, Luis Eugenio ^a  

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EID: 1542303674     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.133     Document Type: Article

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