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In Search of Mechanisms - Discoveries across the Life Sciences (Hardcover, New)
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In Search of Mechanisms - Discoveries across the Life Sciences (Hardcover, New)
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Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory.
Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and
the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient
cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances in estuaries
such as the Chesapeake Bay. In fact, much of biology and its
history involves biologists constructing, evaluating, and revising
their understanding of mechanisms. With In Search of Mechanisms,
Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden offer both a descriptive and an
instructional account of how biologists discover mechanisms.
Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the
centuries, Craver and Darden compile an impressive toolbox of
strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal
the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena
characteristic of living things. They discuss the questions that
figure in the search for mechanisms, characterizing the
experimental, observational, and conceptual considerations used to
answer them, all the while providing examples from the history of
biology to highlight the kinds of evidence and reasoning strategies
employed to assess mechanisms. At a deeper level, Craver and Darden
pose a systematic view of what biology is, of how biology makes
progress, of how biological discoveries are and might be made, and
of why knowledge of biological mechanisms is important for the
future of the human species.
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