Introduction: The garden in the machine: Toward an evolutionary history of technology

Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-16

  Russell, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203488782     Document Type: Editorial

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