Feedback theory and Darwinian evolution
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Feedback and Chaos in Darwinian Evolution
Douglas S. Robertson is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geological Sciences and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Michael C. Grant is Professor at the Department of E.P.O. Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. BY DOUGLAS S. ROBERTSON AND MICHAEL C. GRANT Feedback exists in selective Darwinian processes because the populations that are being altered by evolut...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5193(05)80393-5