Comparison and adaptation

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  1979-09-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.1979.0084PMID 42060
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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