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Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences

Autor: Lars Wegner, Ulrich Lüttge

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Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle...

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Autor

Lars Wegner, Ulrich Lüttge

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2019

Pagini

279

EAN

9783030061272

Enbook ID

20755241

Editura

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Greutate

612

Dimensiuni

155 x 235 x 22

Descriere completă

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 systems, which emerge from the interaction of the smaller units they are composed of. The book is divided into three major parts; the essays in part A highlight the conceptual basis of emergence, linking it to the philosophy of science, systems biology and sustainability. This is subsequently exemplified in part B by applying the concept of emergence to various biological disciplines, such as genetics, developmental biology, neurobiology, plant physiology and ecology. New aspects of emergence come into play when biology meets the technical sciences, as revealed in a chapter on bionics. In turn, part C adopts a broader view, revealing how the organization of life follows a hierarchical order in terms of scalar dimensions, ranging from the molecular level to the entire biosphere. The idea that life is primarily and exclusively shaped by processes at the molecular level (and, in particular, by the information encoded in the genome) is refuted; rather, there is no hierarchy with respect to the level of causation in the cross-talk between the levels. In the last two chapters, the evolutionary trend toward ever-increasing complexity in living systems is interpreted in terms of the Gaia hypothesis sensu Lovelock: the entire biosphere is viewed as a functional unit (or 'holobiont-like system') organized to develop and sustain life on Earth.