Reductionism is almost a dirty word, especially in biology, but after thirty years of DNA, it is high time that biologists paid attention to the question of what constitutes an explanation.
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Maddox, J. Is biology now part of physics?. Nature 306, 311 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/306311a0
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