National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Montana
E: kathrynwilsterman [at] gmail.com

“…[T]he never-ending debate between reductionist and holist philosophies in the quest for understanding the natural world [...] It can be argued that the impressive progress of the most reductionist of the biological sciences, molecular biology, is in fact helping to reinforce a scenario proposed long ago by the holist camp – the essence of a biological system is in the emergent properties of its interacting component parts. We can dismantle the system piece by piece, but the more we do that, the more we realize that these emergent properties can only be investigated when the parts are together”
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Schlichting and Pigliucci in Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective