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Science 14 October 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5746, p. 237
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119501
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SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
The Origins of Stability

Greg Gibson

Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems
by Andreas Wagner
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 383 pp. $49.50, £32.50. ISBN 0-691-12240-7. Princeton Studies in Complexity.
Writing for researchers and graduate students, the author explores the questions of why organisms are robust despite the countless random mutations per generation and how evolution has shaped such robustness.
The reviewer is in the Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7614, USA. E-mail: ggibson{at}unity.ncsu.edu

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