The power of negative [theoretical] results

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Günter P Wagner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 5;114(49):12851-12852.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718862114. Epub 2017 Nov 21.

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 gunter.wagner@yale.edu.

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