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Necessity and chance: deterministic chaos in ecology and evolution

Author(s): Robert M. May
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 291-308.
MathSciNet review: 1307905
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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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Additional Information:

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00598-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1995)00598-7
Copyright of article: Copyright 1995, American Mathematical Society




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