CHAPTER 4 Real-World Science Study Examples
BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE: REDUCTIONISM VERSUS WHOLE ORGANISM BIOLOGY
Overall, there is scepticism about what we “atomic level structuralists,” my area of expertise, do for biology:
Dame Ottoline Leyser, Professor of Plant Development at the University of Cambridge, was quoted recently (Turney 2019) that: “The defining feature of biology during the past few decades has been figuring out details of the parts. But biological systems don’t think they have parts.” Scepticism of the role of reductionism in understanding biology is a theme in Ernst Mayr’s book What Makes Biology Unique? (Mayr 2007). Mayr even argues against the relevance of the discovery of the DNA ...
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