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Bechtel, W., Callebaut, W., Griesemer, J.R. et al. Bill Wimsatt on Multiple Ways of Getting at the Complexity of Nature. Biol Theory 1, 213–219 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1162/biot.2006.1.2.213
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