![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Keller’s aim in this bold and challenging book to account for this epistemological diversity-particularly in the discipline of developmental biology. Explanations in the biological sciences are typically provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogeneous as their subject matter. What do biologists want? If, unlike their counterparts in physics, biologists are generally wary of a grand, overarching theory, at what kinds of explanation do biologists aim? How will we know when we have “made sense” of life? Such questions, Evelyn Fox Keller suggests, offer no simple answers. ![]()
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