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Simply complex: Essentialism trumps reductionism

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Alberts, J.R. Simply complex: Essentialism trumps reductionism. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2, 379–381 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11910-002-0059-5

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