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A New Science of Life : The hypothesis of formative causation

After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new kind of water maze, successive generations learned quicker and quicker. Then rats in Melbourne, Australia, lear...

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Autor principal: Rupert Sheldrake
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado: London Icon Books 2009
Edición:3rd ed.
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