The Limits of Reductionism in Biology

Gregory Bock · Jamie A. Goode

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Reductionism and Antireductionism (T. Nagel). Reductionism in Physical Sciences (R. Williams). Macromolecular Structure and Self-Assembly (R. Henderson). Reduction and Integration in Understanding the Heart (D. Noble). Muscle Contraction (K. Holmes). Reductionism and Explanation in Cell Biology (P. Nurse). Biological Computation (S. Brenner). Reductionism in Learning and Memory (W. Quinn). Hearing (J. Ashmore). The Nested Networks of Brains and Minds (H. Barlow). Genes, Environment and the Development of Behaviour (P. Bateson). What is Wrong with Reductionist Explanations of Behaviour? (S. Rose). Levels of Organization in Ecological Systems (R. May). The Units of Selection (J. Smith). Indexes.

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