Position paper. Universal symbiogenesis: An alternative to universal selectionist accounts of evolution

Symbiosis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 167-181

  Gontier, Nathalie ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Culture; Evolutionary epistemology; Hybridization; Origin of life; Universal selectionism; Universal symbiogenesis; Viruses

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; NATURAL SELECTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34347349990     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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