Ehud Lamm

Understanding in Biology (in Hebrew)


Ehud Lamm, Understanding in Biology (in Hebrew). In Hed Hachinuch (Journal of Israeli Teachers Union), 2013 [PDF ]

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I present several aspects of how biologists understand the world; their conceptual toolkit, if you will. Topics include: contingency and necessity, the comparative method, mechanistic and functional explanation, levels of organization, time scales, population thinking, variation, and narraitve understanding.

The guiding conceit is biology versus “stamp collecting”.

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