Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674012509ISBN-10:067401250XUPC:9780674012509Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Developmental BiologySize:8.46 x 5.24 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCGF650QW9
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines
What do biologists want? If, unlike their counterparts in physics, biologists are generally wary of a grand, overarching theory, at what kinds of explanation do biologists aim? How will we know when we have "made sense" of life? Such questions, Evelyn Fox Keller suggests, offer no simple answers. Explanations in the biological sciences are typically provisional and partial, judged by criteria as...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674012509ISBN-10:067401250XUPC:9780674012509Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Developmental BiologySize:8.46 x 5.24 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCGF650QW9
Keller, Evelyn Fox: - Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous honorary degrees.
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