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Enablement, the adjacent possible and the becoming of the biosphere

Stuart Kauffman: A world beyond physics: the emergence and evolution of life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, ix + 151 pp, $24.95 HB, ISBN: 9780190871338

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van der Merwe, R. Enablement, the adjacent possible and the becoming of the biosphere. Metascience 29, 279–282 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00525-z

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