The six essentials? Minimal requirements for the Darwinian bootstrapping of quality

Journal of Memetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-13

  Calvin, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DARWINIA;

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