Biology meets physics: Reductionism and multi-scale modeling of morphogenesis
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Biology meets physics: Reductionism and multi-scale modeling of morphogenesis.
A common reductionist assumption is that macro-scale behaviors can be described "bottom-up" if only sufficient details about lower-scale processes are available. The view that an "ideal" or "fundamental" physics would be sufficient to explain all macro-scale phenomena has been met with criticism from philosophers of biology. Specifically, scholars have pointed to the impossibility of deducing b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1369-8486
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.12.003