The legacy of the germ line-maintaining sex and life in metazoans : Cognitive roots of the concept of hierarchical selection

Genome Dynamics and Stability

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 289-339

  Lankenau, Dirk Henner ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

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EID: 48649105296     PISSN: 18613373     EISSN: 18613381     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7050_2007_030     Document Type: Article

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