Darwinian Dynamics Implies Developmental Ascendency

Biological Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-115

  Ao, Ping ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Landscape; Biological Theory; Developmental Ascendency; Dynamical Element; Gene Regulatory Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893164085     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2007.2.1.113     Document Type: Letter

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