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• Title:Making sense of life : explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines / Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
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• Author/Creator:Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-2023.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH491 .K387 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH491 .K387 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-13-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Developmental biology.
  
• Description:xii, 388 p. : illustrations.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-381) and index.
  
• ISBN:0674007468 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Models: Explaining Development without the Help of Genes
  1. Synthetic Biology and the Origin of Living Form
  2. Morphology as a Science of Mechanical Forces
  3. Untimely Births of a Mathematical Biology
  Pt. 2. Metaphors: Genes and Developmental Narratives
  4. Genes, Gene Action, and Genetic Programs
  5. Taming the Cybernetic Metaphor
  6. Positioning Positional Information
  Pt. 3. Machines: Understanding Development with Computers, Recombinant DNA, and Molecular Imaging
  7. Visual Culture of Molecular Embryology
  8. New Roles for Mathematical and Computational Modeling
  9. Synthetic Biology Redux - Computer Simulation and Artificial Life. Conclusion: Understanding Development.