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Evolution as Its Own Cause and Effect

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Evolutionary Systems

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Darwinism is fundamentally incomplete (or, if we are less permissive, fundamentally wrong).

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Kampis, G. (1998). Evolution as Its Own Cause and Effect. In: van de Vijver, G., Salthe, S.N., Delpos, M. (eds) Evolutionary Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1510-2_19

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