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Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
University of Chicago Press (2010)
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1 The Zero-Force Evolutionary Law 2 Randomness, Hierarchy, and Constraint 3 Diversity 4 Complexity 5 Evidence, Predictions, and Tests 6 Philosophical Foundations 7 Implications.Author Profiles
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