Falsifying falsifications: The most critical task of theoreticians in biology

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1012-1020

  De Grey, Aubrey D N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOLOGY; CALCULATION; CELL CULTURE; ERROR; EXPERIMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY;

EID: 2542497029     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.10.028     Document Type: Article

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