Biología teórica, explicaciones y complejidad

In an atavistic way, biologists work in laboratories, do field work, specialize in plants or insects, for example, and extensively do experimental and applied science. In Colombia and in the world, there are very few theoretical biologists and theorists of biology; for example, philosophers of biology, or biologists working around various theoretical and meta-theoretical questions such as the origin and nature of life, the relationships between nature and culture, the links between natural life and artificial life. This book collects works of professors and researchers from France, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia, with a distinctive purpose: the advance in theoretical biology from different angles. There is no such book in Spanish, with such a variety and depth of topics, analysis and reflections, all with a solid state of the art. The editors’ bet is this: Biology has to be understood as the material basis for the understanding of nature, society, the world and human beings.