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BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 381-400Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-012-9313-7
Keywords
Historical explanation; Historicity; Homology; Homology thinking; Multiple realizability; Reductionism
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- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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This paper explores an important type of biological explanation called 'homology thinking.' Homology thinking explains the properties of a homologue by citing the history of a homologue. Homology thinking is significant in several ways. First, it offers more detailed explanations of biological phenomena than corresponding analogy explanations. Second, it provides an important explanation of character similarity and difference. Third, homology thinking offers a promising account of multiple realizability in biology.
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