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Physical theories of biological co-ordination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

H. H. Pattee
H. H. Pattee
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W. W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 4 , Issue 2-3 , August 1971 , pp. 255 - 276
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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