Path dependence and historical contingency in biology

Understanding Change: Models, Methodologies and Metaphors

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 140-157

  Szathmáry, Eörs ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524644_10     Document Type: Chapter

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