Systems biology, emergence and antireductionism

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 584-591

  Kesić, Srdjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Antireductionism; Emergence; General systems theory; Molecular biology; Nonlinear dynamics; Reductionism; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936971307     PISSN: 1319562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.06.015     Document Type: Article

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