Information and meaning in evolutionary processes

Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes

Volumn 9780521815147, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-268

  Harms, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511498473     Document Type: Book

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