Titlebook: Explanation in Biology; An Enquiry into the Pierre-Alain Braillard,Christophe Malaterre Book 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrech

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Book 2015sics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as well as explaining their relationships to one another. It covers the key differentials with other sciences in the nature of explanation, such as the existence in biology of varieties

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Berechnung der Kesselheizflächeanation as it has unfolded in the past seven decades, and highlight the specific issues that models of explanation have faced in biology. We then show how the different essays gathered in this collective volume tackle aspects of this important debate.

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带来

The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems BiologyDrawing on examples from the scientific literature, I suggest that an important aspect of explaining the behavior of a biological mechanism consists in elucidating how in the systemic context components are not, or only weakly, dependent on each other.

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Ornithologist

Berechnung der Kesselheizfläche in physics. One of the reasons was the existence in biology of explanation types that were unheard of in the physical sciences: teleological and functional explanations, historical and evolutionary explanations. More recently, owing in part to the rise of molecular biology, biological explanations