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Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

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Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

by Evelyn Fox Keller

About this title: By way of describing the history of the biological sciences, Keller, an MIT Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, explains how the criteria for accepting scientific knowledge changes over time.

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