Comparative Thinking in Biology

Comparative Thinking in Biology
Adrian Currie
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18 Feb 2021 UK
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9781108727495
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Biologists often study living systems in light of their having evolved, of their being the products of various processes of heredity, adaptation, ancestry, and so on. In their investigations, then, biologists think comparatively: they situate lineages into models of those evolutionary processes, comparing their targets with ancestral relatives and with analogous evolutionary outcomes. This element characterizes this mode of investigation - ' comparative thinking' - and puts it to work in understanding why biological science takes the shape it does. Importantly, comparative thinking is local: what we can do with knowledge of a lineage is limited by the evolutionary processes into which it fits. In light of this analysis, the Element examines the experimental study of animal cognition, and macroevolutionary investigation of the ' shape of life' , demonstrating the importance of comparative thinking in understanding both the power and limitations of biological knowledge.

Comparative Thinking in Biology
Model Organisms
Stem Cells

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ISBN-13: 9781108727495
Published: 18 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 4mm
Weight: 126g
Pages: 100

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