عنوان

Making sense of life :

شابک

0674039440

شابک

9780674039445

شابک اشتباه

0674007468

شابک اشتباه

9780674012509

شماره

b738339

عنوان اصلي

Making sense of life :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Evelyn Fox Keller.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2002]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctvjtsc85

عنوان

Making sense of life.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0674007468

موضوع مستند نشده

Developmental biology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Molecular Biology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Biometrie.

موضوع مستند نشده

Developmental biology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Modellen.

موضوع مستند نشده

NATURE-- Reference.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ontwikkelingsbiologie.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Biology.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

NAT-- 027000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 007000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 008000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 086000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Keller, Evelyn Fox,1936-

تاريخ عمليات

20201203232903.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y