No genetics without epigenetics? No biology without systems biology? on the meaning of a relational viewpoint in a complex account of living systems

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1178, Issue , 2009, Pages 305-317

  Van De Vijver, Gertrudis ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Complexity; Contextual determination; Epigenetics; Kant; Multi level determination; Parts and wholes; Relational epistemology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EPIGENETICS; PHILOSOPHY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 70350441807     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05010.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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