Conceptual continuity as a mode of understanding complex systems

Complexity

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 20-24

  Herrmann, Heinz ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological; Conceptual continuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645330420     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20110     Document Type: Article

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