AUTHOR'S BIO
Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at MIT. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines, and The Century of the Gene.
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Biology's Clash of Civilizations
Evelyn Fox Keller Series: Science and Society 2003-04-22Last summer, at a meeting outside Aspen, Colorado, several dozen physicists gathered to celebrate what the journal Nature described as the "growing feeling that their discipline's mindset will be crucial to reaping the harvest of biology's post-genomic era." In fact, with genetics set to improve everything from human health to agriculture, physicists and mathematicians worldwide are pouring into the life sciences. Biology is where the scientific action--and the money--will be in the coming century. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 18114
