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Making Sense of Life : Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines
Making Sense of Life Explaining Biological Development with Models Metaphors and Machines Author:Evelyn Fox Keller 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? A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological explanation in a particularly charged field, Making Sense of Life draws our attention to... more » the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when they propose to explain life.« less