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Adaptation of a lecture delivered to the IVth meeting of the Institute de la Vie, hold in Göttingen, May, 1972

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Woese, C.R. Evolution of the genetic code. Naturwissenschaften 60, 447–459 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00592854

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