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Wendy Wheeler, The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and The Evolution of Culture

Lawrence and Wishart, London, 2006, 192 pp, £17.99, (Pb) ISBN 1-905007-30-2

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Harries-Jones, P. Wendy Wheeler, The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and The Evolution of Culture. Acta Biotheor 55, 297–303 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-007-9021-x

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