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    C. H. Waddington

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Originally published in Waddington CH, ed, Towards a Theoretical Biology, Vol. 1, Prolegomena, International Union of Biological Sciences & Edinburgh University Press, 1968, pp. 1–32.

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Waddington, C.H. The Basic Ideas of Biology. Biol Theory 3, 238–253 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1162/biot.2008.3.3.238

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