'Finitics'. A plea for biological realism

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 703-708

  Kováč, Ladislav ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIRTH RATE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE SATISFACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SENSOR;

ANIMALS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIETIES;

EID: 48649102963     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.138     Document Type: Article

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