Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity

The immeasurable complexity at every level of biological organization creates a daunting task for understanding biological function. Here, we highlight the risks of stripping it away at the outset and discuss a possible path toward arriving at emergent simplicity of understanding while still embraci...

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Autores principales: Bergelson, Joy, Kreitman, Martin, Petrov, Dmitri A, Sanchez, Alvaro, Tikhonov, Mikhail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8184206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34096867
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67646
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author Bergelson, Joy
Kreitman, Martin
Petrov, Dmitri A
Sanchez, Alvaro
Tikhonov, Mikhail
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spelling pubmed-81842062021-06-09 Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity Bergelson, Joy Kreitman, Martin Petrov, Dmitri A Sanchez, Alvaro Tikhonov, Mikhail eLife Evolutionary Biology The immeasurable complexity at every level of biological organization creates a daunting task for understanding biological function. Here, we highlight the risks of stripping it away at the outset and discuss a possible path toward arriving at emergent simplicity of understanding while still embracing the ever-changing complexity of biotic interactions that we see in nature. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8184206/ /pubmed/34096867 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67646 Text en © 2021, Bergelson et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity
title Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity
title_full Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity
title_fullStr Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity
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title_short Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity
title_sort functional biology in its natural context: a search for emergent simplicity
topic Evolutionary Biology
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