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Organismic sets and biological epimorphism

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It is shown that the principle of biological epimorphism (Rashevsky,Mathematical Principles in Biology and Their Applications, Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, 1960) is contained in the theory of organismic sets (Bull. Math. Biophysics,29, 139–152, 1967) if an additional postulate not directly connected to mappings is made.

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  1. Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA

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Rashevsky, N. Organismic sets and biological epimorphism. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 29, 389–393 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476910

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