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Georg Toepfer: ABC of Biological Concepts

Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie. Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe, J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar, 2011, 3 vols., 2504 pp, 579 ill., 308 tab., €299.95 hbk, ISBN 978-3-476-02316-2

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Surman, J. Georg Toepfer: ABC of Biological Concepts . Biol Theory 7, 278–280 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0082-y

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