The core of biology is mainly composed of biochemistry, but also by genetics, microbiology and virology and physiology. Zoology, botany and paleontology are today peripheral disciplines. Ecology plays a critical. As far as it confirms their ability to experiment and adapt the method is pure biology, but this is not easy. In addition there is a risk that the more scientific ecology is more "experience" is the world the more important and powerful the biology, more limited life, at least those we are close to this powerful language and surround science. In this situation, biology can not be sustained in a paradigm based on neo-Darwinian evolution. Throughout the text we will try to substantiate this description. We are not so ambitious as to propose a solution from this project that raises rather intended to provide ideas that illuminate the road in the future.
With these premises, the fact of selecting and criticize some biology books have the added difficulty that a large part of the basic information will be outside the project. In recent years a series of discoveries science has changed in their fundamentals. The discovery of catalytic RNAs, the presence in the genomes of large quantities of non-coding sequences, the role of microRNAs in regulating the expression gene regulatory mechanisms and epigenetic inheritance, are discoveries that have not yet been fully assimilated, digested, and in many cases have not been integrated yet in book form. The reader should know that the biology of today's Cooking at high speed in magazines and online. However, because of their interest can fall prey to the great speed and as a result lose. For we must bear in mind that, ultimately, the first goal of science is not cure the reader or make him rich, but to show a new way of seeing the world that excites him, he moved. The main quality of science in general and biology in particular, will their ability to reach men. If we speak, its literary quality. If so, the good times in biology is past and correspond with the writings of authors who have not relied on technology. We will also see some examples. The simplistic view that dictates that everything in nature is the result of the competition and everything can be explained by natural selection, is simply abhorrent to the ears of someone used to the subtlety required in science, but also for those who have the experience direct nature.
The task we have proposed, we will slowly but without interruption. We will propose five parts briefly introduced, each before their respective comments, so that the prologue will continue until the end of the book and will remain so, unfinished, open.
In the first part, which begins below, we will discuss three books which are not of biology but which are essential to understand. These three books teach us that what is important for science, as it is important for a person, often in the form of returns, passes through circular paths, or at least twist. The important thing returns to its origin, like the shell of a snail or amounts to revolve around an axis as the ladder to climb the tower of a cathedral or the top of a castle. You can take the form of a corkscrew that serves to deepen the inside of things, like philosophy. As our knowledge of our surroundings. Moving forward, further, to live means to return again and again to the same points but with the new look. Ever onward and again in the same place. André Gide, in a correct sentence speaks of the need to move away from the old coast to discover new continents. Old costs and new continents can be both, concepts of opinion, debatable, but it seems clear that to understand the world around us, we need to travel, to see how the mountain, placing us at a distance that allows us to observe. Away in space and time for acquire a new perspective. Walking forward, but always returning to the same place from which and that, again and again, we crossed on our walk, return to forever wonder about the meaning of these words: What is life?, What does that make good to her biology?.
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What is biology? We
way to define the biology
So what is biology?
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Biology studies the aspects of life q. ..
The theory of evolution by natural selection
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