Modeling Biology

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Abstract and conceptual models have become an indispensable tool for analyzing theflood of highly detailed empirical data generated in recent years by advanced techniques in thebiosciences. Scientists are developing new modeling strategies for analyzing data, integratingresults into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, and formulating new hypotheses. InModeling Biology, leading scholars investigate new modeling strategies in the domains of morphology,development, behavior, and evolution. The emphasis on models in the biological sciences has beenaccompanied by a new focus on conceptual issues and a more complex understanding of epistemologicalconcepts. Contributors to Modeling Biology discuss models and modeling strategies from theperspectives of philosophy, history, and applied mathematics. Individual chapters discuss specificapproaches to modeling in such domains as biological form, development, and behavior. Finally, thebook addresses the modeling of these properties in the context of evolution, with a particularemphasis on the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology (orevo-devo).ContributorsGiorgio A. Ascoli, Chandrajit Bajaj, James P. Collins,, Luciano da FontouraCosta, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Nigel R. Franks, Scott Gilbert, Marta Ibañes Miguez, Juan CarlosIzpisúa-Belmonte, Alexander S. Klyubin, Thomas J. Koehnle, Manfred D. Laubichler, Sabina Leonelli,James A. R. Marshall, George R. McGhee Jr., Gerd B. M (Source: Google Books API)