Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wegner, Lars H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lüttge, Ulrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Systems biology.; Philosophy and science.; Ecosystems.; Plant science.; Botany.; Systems Biology.; Philosophy of Science.; Plant Sciences.

This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the non-reproducible features of complex sy...