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What is the coherence of organisms?
The problem of living organization can be stated as follows:
How is it that an organism consisting of a multiplicity of tissues and cells and astronomical numbers of molecules of many different kinds can develop and function as a whole?
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Ho, MW. (1998). Bioenergetics and the Coherence of Organisms. In: Schulte, J., Endler, P.C. (eds) Fundamental Research in Ultra High Dilution and Homoeopathy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5878-7_5
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