Visions of Evolution: Self-organization Proposes What Natural Selection Disposes

Biological Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-29

  Batten, David ^a   Salthe, Stanley ^b   Boschetti, Fabio ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complex systems; development; evolution; natural selection; self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349108635     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2008.3.1.17     Document Type: Article

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