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Follow Thompson's map to turn biology from a science into a Science

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Evelyn Fox Keller, in her Essay “A clash of two cultures” (Nature 445, 603; 2007), argues that biology may not have general laws and that the approach that is natural to physics would probably not work in biology.

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