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Lecture at the XXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Munich, July 25–31, 1971.

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Lorenz, K.Z. The fashionable fallacy of dispensing with description. Naturwissenschaften 60, 1–9 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00591758

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