Creativity as a Darwinian phenomenon: The blind-variation and selective-retention model

Philosophy of History and Culture

Volumn 28, Issue , 2009, Pages 63-81

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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