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The Routledge Handbook of Emergence. Taylor and Francis, 2019. p. 248-264.

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McLeish, T 2019, Soft matter - an emergent interdisciplinary science of emergent entities. in The Routledge Handbook of Emergence. Taylor and Francis, pp. 248-264. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675213-21

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McLeish, T. (2019). Soft matter - an emergent interdisciplinary science of emergent entities. In The Routledge Handbook of Emergence (pp. 248-264). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675213-21

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McLeish T. Soft matter - an emergent interdisciplinary science of emergent entities. In The Routledge Handbook of Emergence. Taylor and Francis. 2019. p. 248-264 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675213-21

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