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Evolution seems to be governed by interactions of chance and necessity [14]. In the latter, optimization principles seem to enter biological systems very often in the process of selective adaption.
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Schilling, K. (1985). On Optimization Principles in Plant Ecology. In: Aubin, JP., Saari, D., Sigmund, K. (eds) Dynamics of Macrosystems. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00545-3_6
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