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Making sense of life : explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines /

Publisher's description: 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 Kell...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2002]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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