Furthermore, "reductionism" is a universal feature of scientific explanation and is even to be found in antiecological eclectic and structural explanations. Although cultural ecologists can improve ...

A secular, mechanistic worldview raises more questions than it purports to answer. In 1978 the Berkeley molecular biologist Gunther Stent published a book called “Paradoxes of Progress,” in which he ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts whose central scientific point is stated as a conclusion, not a question like the title above. We seem, in the biosphere, to be beyond Newton, beyond Laplace, ...

During the scientific revolution reductionism and mechanism were introduced together. These concepts remained intertwined through much of the ensuing history of philosophy and science, resulting in ...

Researchers Increasingly Rely on Holistic Studies to Obtain Greater Insights on Health and Disease For more than a decade, systems biology has grown rapidly, mainly in academic labs. It is now ...

Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. These two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in ...

Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., and Howard Jacobson, Ph.D., is a new book about the whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet discussed by Dr. Campbell and his son ...