Molecular Models of Life - Table of Contents

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Molecular Models of Life
Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology
Sahotra Sarkar

	Preface	ix

	Acknowledgments	xiii

	Sources	xv

1	Introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (200 KB)	1

I	Reduction	53

2	Models of Reduction and Categories of Reductionism (1992)	55

3	Genes versus Molecules: How To, and How Not To, Be a Reductionist (2002)	85

4	Reduction: A Philosophical Analysis (2001)	105

II	Function	115

5	Reductionism and Functional Explanation in Molecular Biology (1991)	117

6	Natural Selection, Hypercycles, and the Origin of Life (1988)	145

7	Form and Function in the Molecularization of Biology (1996)	161

III	Information	181

8	Decoding "Coding": Information and DNA (1996)	183

9	Biological Information: A Skeptical Look at Some Central Dogmas of Molecular Biology (1996)	205

10	How Genes Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits (2004)	261

IV	Evolution	285

11	Neo-Darwinism and the Problem of Directed Mutations (1992)	287

12	Lamarck contre Darwin, Reduction versus Statistics: Conceptual Issues in the Controversy over Directed Mutagenesis in Bacteria (1991)	303

13	Directional Mutations: Fifteen Years Afterward (2004)	347

14	From Genes as Determinants to DNA as Resource: Historical Notes on Development, Genetics, and Evolution (2004)	365

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (37 KB)	389

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