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MAKING SENSE OF LIFE
EXPLAINING BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT WITH MODELS, METAPHORS, AND MACHINES |
| By: |
Evelyn Fox Keller |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£30.95 |
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£27.86 |
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£3.09 |
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| ISBN 10: |
067401250X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674012509 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2003 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
What do biologists want? How will we know when we have 'made sense' of life? Explanations in the biological sciences are provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogenous as their subject matter. This text accounts for this diversity. |
| Synopsis: |
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, have no simple answers. Explanations in the biological sciences are typically provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogeneous as their subject matter. It is Keller's aim in this book to account for this epistemological diversity - particularly in the discipline of developmental biology. |
| Illustrations: |
5 halftones, 4 line illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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