Making Sense of Life

Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

Evelyn Fox Keller

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674012509

Publication Date: 10/31/2003

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400 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

5 halftones, 4 line illustrations

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Preface
Introduction
I. Models: Explaining Development without the Help of Genes
- 1. Synthetic Biology and the Origin of Living Form
- 2. Morphology as a Science of Mechanical Forces
- 3. Untimely Births of a Mathematical Biology
II. Metaphors: Genes and Developmental Narratives
- 4. Genes, Gene Action, and Genetic Programs
- 5. Taming the Cybernetic Metaphor
- 6. Positioning Positional Information
III. Machines: Understanding Development with Computers, Recombinant DNA, and Molecular Imaging
- 7. The Visual Culture of Molecular Embryology
- 8. New Roles for Mathematical and Computational Modeling
- 9. Synthetic Biology Redux-Computer Simulation and Artificial Life
Conclusion: Understanding Development
Notes
References
Index

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