Modeling Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262538156 ISBN 13: 9780262538152

Publisher: MIT Press, 2007

Synopsis

Experts examine new modeling strategies for the interpretation of biological data and their integration into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, detailing approaches that focus on morphology, development, behavior, or evolution.

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About the Author

Manfred D. Laubichler is Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the School of Life Sciences and Centers for Biology and Society and Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University.He is the coeditor of From Embryology to Evo-Devo (MIT Press, 2007).

Review

Modeling Biology explores the epistemic role of a wide variety of models and modeling practices in contemporary biology. Using examples from current research in morphology, development, behavior, and evolution, the contributors offer critical reflections on the intricate interplay of experiment and model-building, as creative imaginations equipped with the power of modern computing search for the patterns that underlie and inform the complex variety of the living world. In a nice twist, the authors show how models have grown and evolved with their subjects, thus taking on their own form of life.

―Michael S. Mahoney, Program in History of Science, Princeton University

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262538156
• ISBN 13: 9780262538152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Laubichler Manfred D., Muller Gerd B.