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Is complexity theory appropriate for analyzing biological systems?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

John K. Tsotsos
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Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada, Electronic mail: [email protected]

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