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Dividing biology into disciplines: Chaos or multiformity?

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A good division of biology is important for clarity of thought, presentation of the problems and nowadays also for science policy. Various classifications are in use, depending upon different parameters. A division can be based on objects and on aspects. A modern classification on objects is based on the levels of organisation. Methodological principles play a role in the background.

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  1. Laboratory of Zoology, State University Leiden, The Netherlands

    P. Dullemeijer

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Lecture presented before the Netherlands Society for Theoretical Biology, Leiden, 14 March 1975.

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Dullemeijer, P. Dividing biology into disciplines: Chaos or multiformity?. Acta Biotheor 29, 87–93 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00046373

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