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. 2009 Sep 1;92(3-4):447–468. doi: 10.3184/003685009X12547510332277

Adaptive Mutations: A Challenge to Neo-Darwinism?

Dragutin J Savic 1,2
PMCID: PMC10368342  PMID: 19960882

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