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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 and challenging book to account for this epistemological diversity--particularly in the discipline of developmental biology. In particular, Keller asks, what counts as an "explanation" of biological development in individual organisms? Her inquiry ranges from physical and mathematical models to more familiar explanatory metaphors to the dramatic contributions of recent technological developments, especially in imaging, recombinant DNA, and computer modeling and simulations. A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological explanation in a particularly charged field, Making Sense of Life draws our attention to the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when they propose to explain life. |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 388 S. |
| ISBN: | 0674007468 |
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| adam_text | MAKING SENSE OF LIFE EXPLAINING BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT WITH MODELS,
METAPHORS, AND MACHINES EVELYN FOX KELLER HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, AND LONDON, ENGLAND 2002 CONTENTS PREFACE VII
INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE MODELS: EXPLAINING DEVELOPMENT 11 WITHOUT THE
HELP OF GENES 1 SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FORM 15 2
MORPHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE OF MECHANICAL FORCES 50 3 UNTIMELY BIRTHS OF A
MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY 79 PART TWO METAPHORS: GENES AND DEVELOPMENTAL
NARRATIVES 113 4 GENES, GENE ACTION, AND GENETIC PROGRAMS 123 5 TAMING
THE CYBERNETIC METAPHOR 148 6 POSITIONING POSITIONAL INFORMATION 173
PART THREE MACHINES: UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT WITH COM- 199 PUTERS,
RECOMBINANT DNA, AND MOLECULAR IMAGING 7 THE VISUAL CULTURE OF MOLECULAR
EMBRYOLOGY 205 VI CONTENTS 8 NEW ROLES FOR MATHEMATICAL AND
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING 234 9 SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY REDUX*COMPUTER SIMULATION
AND 265 ARTIFICIAL LIFE CONCLUSION: UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT 295 NOTES
305 REFERENCES 351 INDEX 382
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