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vom großen Friedenshort-Liebeswerk Eva von Tiele-Wincklers bis zum Leben der einfachen Leute

cross-linguistic perspective

After earlier meetings in Enschede (NL

Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology formatIsbn:Softcover - 9789048153640 Versicherungen und BehördenHolism and reductionism are traditionally seen as incompatible views or approaches to nature. Here Looijen argues that they should rather be seen as mutually dependent and hence co operating research programmes. He sheds some interesting new light on the emergence thesis, its relation to the reduction thesis, and on the role and status of functional explanations in biology. He discusses several examples of reduction in both biology and ecology,