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| | Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determinism (Steven Rose) |
 | | Rose argues for ontological unity but epistemological diversity, for the validity of different levels of explanation of the one world. |
 | | Rose highlights the complexity of the relationship between genes, chromosomes, genomes, and organisms, and the need for concepts such as norms of reaction in modeling the rarely simple or linear relationships between genotype and phenotype. |
 | | Rose analyses some of the devices used: reification, arbitrary agglomeration, improper quantification, the abuse of statistics, spurious localisation, misplaced causation, and the confusion of metaphor with homology, among others. |
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