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Sahotra Sarkar, Molecular models of life: philosophical papers on molecular biology

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Notes

  1. Rumor has it that Sarkar works at any given time on forty different papers simultaneously.

  2. See Oberheim (1999) for a full bibliography of Feyerabend’s works.

  3. A quite similar classification can be found already in Ayala (1974).

  4. See e.g. Walsh and Ariew (1996) and Wouters (2003) for such a pluralistic approach to the notion of functions.

  5. That is the question whether there are cases where the environment can be responsible, directly or indirectly, for the genesis of variations that are adaptive to it.

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Sirtes, D. Sahotra Sarkar, Molecular models of life: philosophical papers on molecular biology. Acta Biotheor 55, 91–94 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-007-9012-y

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