Why Organisms?

Authors

  • Mariano Bizzarri Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
  • Ana M. Soto Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology Tufts University School of Medicine Boston MA (USA)
  • Carlos Sonnenschein Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology Tufts University School of Medicine Boston MA (USA)
  • Giuseppe Longo Centre Cavaillès, CNRS et Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Graduate School of Cell and developmental Biology, Tufts University, Boston

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-5876/13871

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century, biology is facing an epistemological crisis which anticipates a paradigm change. Reductionism and the molecular analysis it favors have failed to bring about an understanding of complex phenomena in biology. This will require a reappraisal of old research concepts. The dominant view during the last fifty years has been that development is merely the unfolding of a genetic program. This perception is now being challenged by the resurgence of the once prominent fields of biological inquiry, namely, ecological and evolutionary developmental biology. However, these efforts remain few and far between because they are diluted by a sea of publications still based on reductionist interpretations. Meanwhile, there is no source explicitly committed to a perspective centered on organisms. Thus, there is a need for a journal dedicated to high quality theoretical and experimental work while promoting an interdisciplinary approach to the main topics in biology.

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Bizzarri, M., Soto, A. M., Sonnenschein, C., & Longo, G. (2017). Why Organisms?. Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, 1(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-5876/13871

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