Complex Systems, Trade‐Offs, and Theoretical Population Biology: Richard Levin's “Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology” Revisited
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy of Science
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-8248,1539-767X
DOI: 10.1086/377425