Why integrative pluralism?

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 81-91

  Mitchell, Sandra D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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