Abstract and conceptual versions became an fundamental device for reading the flood of hugely specified empirical facts generated lately through complex innovations within the biosciences. Scientists are constructing new modeling concepts for reading info, integrating effects into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, and formulating new hypotheses. In Modeling Biology, prime students examine new modeling innovations within the domain names of morphology, improvement, habit, and evolution. The emphasis on versions within the organic sciences has been observed by means of a brand new specialize in conceptual concerns and a extra advanced figuring out of epistemological options. members to Modeling Biology speak about types and modeling techniques from the views of philosophy, historical past, and utilized arithmetic. person chapters talk about particular methods to modeling in such domain names as organic shape, improvement, and behaviour. ultimately, the e-book addresses the modeling of those houses within the context of evolution, with a specific emphasis at the rising box of evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo).ContributorsGiorgio A. Ascoli, Chandrajit Bajaj, James P. Collins,, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Nigel R. Franks, Scott Gilbert, Marta Ibañes Miguez, Juan Carlos Izpisúa-Belmonte, Alexander S. Klyubin, Thomas J. Koehnle, Manfred D. Laubichler, Sabina Leonelli, James A. R. Marshall, George R. McGhee Jr., Gerd B. Müller, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Karl J. Niklas, Lars Olsson, Eirikur Palsson, Daniel Polani, Diego Rasskin Gutman, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Alexei V. Samsonovich, Jeffrey C. Schank, Harry B. M. Uylings, Jaap van Pelt, Iain Werry Manfred D. Laubichler is Assistant Professor within the college of lifestyles Sciences at Arizona country college. he's the coeditor of From Embryology to Evo-Devo (MIT Press, 2007). Gerd B. Müller is Professor and Head of the Deparment of Theoretical Biology on the college of Vienna. he's a coeditor of Origination of Organismal shape (MIT Press, 2003) and atmosphere, improvement, Evolution (MIT Press, 2003).