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The Functional System as a Unit of Organism Integrative Activity

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Systems Theory and Biology

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Perhaps the most prominent event in recent years is the growing tendency to identify the regularities of systems organization of life function, and to find the specific laws of the whole, the laws which are peculiar for the whole only and control the behavior of the parts.

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Anokhin, P.K. (1968). The Functional System as a Unit of Organism Integrative Activity. In: Mesarović, M.D. (eds) Systems Theory and Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88343-9_15

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