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Necessity and chance: deterministic chaos in ecology and evolution
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Abstract:

This is an outline of my Gibbs Lecture to the American Mathematical Society in January 1994; it is essentially a sign-posted guide to a stilldeveloping literature.
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  • © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 291-308
  • MSC: Primary 92D25; Secondary 92D15, 92D40
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00598-7
  • MathSciNet review: 1307905