Scientific progress specific to biology: An epistemological overview

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-23

  Durrive, Barthélemy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Epistemological obstacles; Epistemological rupture; Interdisciplinarity; Mode of intelligibility; Ontophylogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY;

BIOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 84865967560     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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