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Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization
in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole
is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is
dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the
non-reproducible features of complex systems, which emerge from the
interaction of the smaller units they are composed of. The book is
divided into three major parts; the essays in part A highlight the
conceptual basis of emergence, linking it to the philosophy of
science, systems biology and sustainability. This is subsequently
exemplified in part B by applying the concept of emergence to
various biological disciplines, such as genetics, developmental
biology, neurobiology, plant physiology and ecology. New aspects of
emergence come into play when biology meets the technical sciences,
as revealed in a chapter on bionics. In turn, part C adopts a
broader view, revealing how the organization of life follows a
hierarchical order in terms of scalar dimensions, ranging from the
molecular level to the entire biosphere. The idea that life is
primarily and exclusively shaped by processes at the molecular
level (and, in particular, by the information encoded in the
genome) is refuted; rather, there is no hierarchy with respect to
the level of causation in the cross-talk between the levels. In the
last two chapters, the evolutionary trend toward ever-increasing
complexity in living systems is interpreted in terms of the Gaia
hypothesis sensu Lovelock: the entire biosphere is viewed as a
functional unit (or 'holobiont-like system') organized to develop
and sustain life on Earth.
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