Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01681.xPMID 19210588
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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