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Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences

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This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the non-reproducible features of complex systems, which emerge from the interaction of the smaller units they are composed of.
The book is divided into three major parts; the essays in part A highlight the conceptual basis of emergence, l...