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The discussion on reductionism in biology is a very old story. The great complexity of biological systems, of course, from the beginning of the history of biology, seemed to authorize the hope that other sciences, the objects of which could be considered simpler, could help to give some explanation of the complicated behaviour of biological systems or biological sub- systems. In this sense, to claim that physics or chemistry can solve the problems of biologists is an understandable attitude, although not a convincing one.
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Morchio, R. (1991). Reductionism in Biology. In: Agazzi, E. (eds) The Problem of Reductionism in Science. Episteme, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3492-7_8
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