Making sense of life : explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines / Evelyn Fox Keller.

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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Main Author: Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-2023 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.