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Complementarity in biology

Mazzocchi F

EMBO reports, 2010

Abstract

Fulvio Mazzocchi asserts that neither systems nor reductionist approaches to the analysis of life are sufficient to understand the complexity of living things. Instead, biology should adopt a mindset in which different explanations for biological phenomena complement each other in a manner similar to the theoretical framework of quantum physics.

A reassessment in relation to molecular-reductionist and systemic approaches

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