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The capricious character of nature

Jaana Keto1, Arto Annila2

  • 1Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Fi-00014 Helsinki , Finland. jaana.keto@helsinki.fi.

Life (Basel, Switzerland)
|November 11, 2014
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