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Explaining the evolved: Homunculi, modules, and internal representation

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Wheeler, M. (1998). Explaining the evolved: Homunculi, modules, and internal representation. In: Husbands, P., Meyer, JA. (eds) Evolutionary Robotics. EvoRobots 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64957-3_66

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