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Holism and Field Theories in Biology

Non-molecular Approaches and their Relevance to Biophysics

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Today’s biology, dominated by the molecular approach developed since about 1940, is suffocated by an immense number of experimental data on molecular aspects of biological functions which present an extremely fragmented view of the living state. The very success of this approach is now becoming biology’s greatest enemy; the low prestige awarded for such efforts has made unifying concepts a rarity and has not favored the emergence of any comprehensive picture of the living state. There is neither a conceptual framework to unify the findings into a theory of biology, nor even one to guide further research.

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Bischof, M. (1998). Holism and Field Theories in Biology. In: Chang, JJ., Fisch, J., Popp, FA. (eds) Biophotons. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0928-6_24

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