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Jacob is one of the fathers of modern Biology, and in his monumental work The Logic of Life he recounts the polarity that has always existed in biological science between analytical and synthetic traditions, between reductionism and holism . Interestingly, however, although he is a model example of the reductionist tradition and one of the fathers of Molecular Biology, Jacob does not rule out the possibility of emergent properties.
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Jacob F (1973) La lógica de lo viviente. Editorial Laia, Barcelona
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Moya, A. (2015). Tinkering and Evolution. In: The Calculus of Life. SpringerBriefs in Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16970-5_3
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