Self-Organization, Natural Selection, and Evolution: Cellular Hardware and Genetic Software

Self-organization is sometimes presented as an alternative to natural selection as the primary mechanism underlying the evolution of function in biological systems. Here we argue that although self-organization is one of selection's fundamental tools, selection itself is the creative force in e...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bioscience 2010-12, Vol.60 (11), p.879-885
Hauptverfasser: Johnson, Brian R, Lam, Sheung Kwan
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