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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2002]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Synthetic biology and the origin of living form
- Morphology as a science of mechanical forces
- Untimely births of a mathematical biology
- Genes, gene action, and genetic programs
- Taming the cybernetic metaphor
- Positioning positional information
- The visual culture of molecular embryology
- New roles for mathematical and computational modeling
- Synthetic biology redux--computer simulation and artificial life.