On the Nature of Allosteric Transitions
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"It ia certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception; for when one body b applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which i s agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which i s ingrate; and whether th,e body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for eke all bodies would be like one to another." Francia Bacon (about 1620)
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