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Nature 439, xiii (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/7075xiiib; Published online 25 January 2006
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While pondering how erosion shapes landscapes, William Dietrich and his graduate student Taylor Perron realized that many models used by Earth scientists to explain the phenomenon are missing something: life. The models tend to be mechanistic and don't take into account biological factors.
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