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posted 30. October 2003 09:23
26 September 2003 Vol. 301 Science
Networks In Biology
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Biological Networks: The Tinkerer as an Engineer
by U. Alon
Francois Jacob pictured evolution as a tinkerer, not an engineer. Engineers and tinkerers arrive at their solutions by very different routes. Rather than planning structures in advance and drawing up blueprints (as an engineer would), evolution as a tinkerer works with odds and ends, assembling interactions until they are good enough to work. It is therefore wondrous that the solutions found by evolution have much in common with good engineering design. This Viewpoint comments on recent advances in understanding biological networks using concepts from engineering
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