[PDF.84bf] Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

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 | #918116 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2003-10-31 |  2003-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x1.00 x5.50l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||46 of 54 people found the following review helpful.| History, but no explaining|By T. Gwinn|I was rather disappointed in this book. Keller's view of 'explanation' is that it is relative to the needs of each particular culture and their historical time (p. 5). As such, she does not really critique or analyze the various historical concepts to any degree. Essentially, she presents what happened, and who did it, and how some thing|From Publishers Weekly|Keller (The Century of the Gene), professor of history and philosophy of science at MIT, analyzes the history of developmental biology. She explains the type of information scientists have accepted, why changes in acceptance may occur and,

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 heterogeneous as their subject matter. It is Keller's aim in this bold an...

You easily download any file type for your device.Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines   |  Evelyn Fox Keller. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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