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11.'Downward Causation'in Hierarchically Organised Biological Systems
In Francisco Jose Ayala & Theodosius Dobzhansky (eds.), Studies in the philosophy of biology: reduction and related problems. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 179 (1974)
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