Self-organization, natural selection, and evolution: Cellular hardware and genetic software

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 879-885

  Johnson, Brian R ^a   Lam, Sheung Kwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; complexity theory; evolution; natural selection; self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650142804     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.4     Document Type: Article

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