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Is the Concept of an Organism as a Machine a Useful One?

✍ Scribed by N. Rashevsky

Book ID: 123629315
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Year: 1955
Weight: 703 KB
Volume: 80
Category: Article
ISSN: 0096-3771
DOI: 10.2307/21037

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