Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love by Alexander Rosenberg

By Alexander Rosenberg

After the invention of the constitution of DNA in 1953, scientists operating in molecular biology embraced reductionism—the thought that each one complicated structures could be understood when it comes to their parts. Reductionism, in spite of the fact that, has been extensively resisted by way of either nonmolecular biologists and scientists operating outdoor the sector of biology. a lot of those antireductionists, however, include the inspiration of physicalism—the concept that all organic techniques are actual in nature. How, Alexander Rosenberg asks, can those self-proclaimed physicalists even be antireductionists?

With readability and wit, Darwinian Reductionism navigates this tough and possible intractable dualism with convincing research and well timed proof. within the spirit of the few exotic biologists who settle for reductionism—E. O. Wilson, Francis Crick, Jacques Monod, James Watson, and Richard Dawkins—Rosenberg presents a philosophically subtle security of reductionism and applies it to molecular developmental biology and the idea of common choice, eventually proving that the physicalist also needs to be a reductionist.

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