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Giuseppe Longo, Maël Montévil, Stuart Kauffman. No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere. Invited Paper, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO’12, July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia (PA, USA); proceedings, ACM 2012. (noentail.pdf). Preliminary version:. (arxiv.org/abs/1201.2069).
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