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Towards a Theory of Life

Andrés Moya

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Mathematical and theoretical biologyTransformation (function)Development (topology)Order (exchange)Cell theoryFormal languageSet (psychology)Cellular automatonEpistemology

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In this paper, I set out the contributions made by some European biologists, as well as other more heterodox ones, to the recent development of theoretical thinking in biology. Theoretical biology is a relatively new discipline when compared with theoretical physics, in part because the formal languages of logic and computing which it uses have only emerged recently. Finally, I suggest that in order to build a theory of life we need to combine a cell theory based on a proper description of the laws that map the genotype in the phenotype and vice versa with the laws of evolution. Only then will we be able to properly explain the transformation and complexity of living things.

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2015-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28475-0_2