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Biosemiotics —a paradigm of biology

Biological signalling on the verge of deterministic chaos

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Extended version of a paper presented by H. R. on the 22nd Internat. Ethological Conference, Kyoto, 22–29 August 1991

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Eder, J., Rembold, H. Biosemiotics —a paradigm of biology. Naturwissenschaften 79, 60–67 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01131804

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