Mapping the Future of Biology Evolving Concepts and Theories /

This volume is the best available tool to compare and appraise the different approaches of todays biology and their conceptual frameworks, serving as a springboard for new research on a clarified conceptual basis. It is expected to constitute a key reference work for biologists and philosophers of...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barberousse, Anouk. (Editor), Morange, Michel. (Editor), Pradeu, Thomas. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 266
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