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O’Malley, Maureen A., Soyer, Orkun S. and Siegal, Mark L. (2015) A philosophical perspective on evolutionary systems biology. Biological Theory, Volume 10 (Number 1). pp. 6-17. doi:10.1007/s13752-015-0202-6 ISSN 1555-5542.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-015-0202-6
Abstract
Evolutionary systems biology (ESB) is an emerging hybrid approach that integrates methods, models, and data from evolutionary and systems biology. Drawing on themes that arose at a cross-disciplinary meeting on ESB in 2013, we discuss in detail some of the explanatory friction that arises in the interaction between evolutionary and systems biology. These tensions appear because of different modeling approaches, diverse explanatory aims and strategies, and divergent views about the scope of the evolutionary synthesis. We locate these discussions in the context of long-running philosophical deliberations on explanation, modeling, and theoretical synthesis. We show how many of the issues central to ESB’s progress can be understood as general philosophical problems. The benefits of addressing these philosophical issues feed back into philosophy too, because ESB provides excellent examples of scientific practice for the development of philosophy of science and philosophy of biology.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy, Systems biology | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Biological Theory | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1555-5542 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2015 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 10 | ||||||||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 6-17 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13752-015-0202-6 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF) | ||||||||||
| Grant number: | EP/1017445/1 (EPSRC), R01GM086673 (NIH), R01GM097415 (NIH), IOS-1258078 (NSF) |
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