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Nature 445, 603 (8 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445603a; Published online 7 February 2007
Connections A clash of two cultures
Evelyn Fox Keller1
- Evelyn Fox Keller is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass Avenue, E51-185, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, and a Blaise Pascal chair in Paris, France.
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Abstract
Physicists come from a tradition of looking for all-encompassing laws, but is this the best approach to use when probing complex biological systems?
Biologists often pay little attention to debates in the philosophy of science. But one question that has concerned philosophers is rapidly coming to have direct relevance to researchers in the life sciences: are there laws of biology?
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