Some thoughts on the requirements for a theory of biology |
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Authors: | Michael A Fox |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biomathematics, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA;(2) Department of Biomathematics, UCLA, USA |
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Abstract: | Complexity and stability are the ubiquitous characteristics of all biological phenomena. The theoretical suggestions presented
here acknowledge this and attempt to capitalize on the property of selectiveness that complexity induces. It is from this
that a belief in the existence of selection rules emerges. What is required of a viable theory is a linguistic means of maneuvering
known information so that these selection or limitation rules may be obtained, and thence, by their manipulation, to generate
the properties exhibited by biological systems. |
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