Broken Symmetries, Information and Emergence: What is theory, that biology should be mindful of it?
The discipline of `theoretical biology' has been developing from its inception several decades ago almost in parallel with the advances in biology, so much so that the latter is often considered to be almost exclusively an empirical science. However, the scenario has been changing in recent years with statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and soft-matter physics being more and more frequently invoked to explain various biological observations. As distinct from computational biology, theoret…
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