Talk of different types of cells is commonplace in the biological sciences. We know a great deal, for example, about human muscle cells by studying the same type of cells in mice. Information about cell type is apparently largely projectible across species boundaries. But what defines cell type? Do cells come pre-packaged into different natural kinds? Philosophical attention to these questions has been extremely limited [see e.g., Wilson (Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, pp 187-207, 1999; Genes and the Agents of Life, 2005; Wilson et al. Philos Top 35(1/2): 189-215, 2007)]. On the face of it, the problems we face in individuating cellular kinds resemble those biologists and philosophers of biology encountered in thinking about species...
Abstract Cells are highly complex and orderly machines, with defined shapes and a startling variety ...
The EMBO/EMBL Symposium on ‘The Identity and Evolution of Cell Types’ took place in Heidelberg, Germ...
Evolutionary developmental biologists categorize many different kinds of things, from ontogenetic st...
Abstract. This paper argues that typical biological species are natural kinds, on a familiar realist...
Multicellular organisms are composed of distinct cell types that have specific roles in the body. Ea...
Here, we propose a new approach to defining nerve cell types in reaction to recent advances in sin...
All aspects of biological diversification ultimately trace to evolutionary modifications at the cell...
Biological species are often taken as counterexamples to essentialist accounts of natural kinds. Ess...
Cell types are composed of cellular modules exerting specific subfunctions. The evolutionary emergen...
The evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutionary tr...
The evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutionary tr...
Despite the traditional focus on metaphysical issues in discussions of natural kinds in biology, epi...
The diversity of brain cell types was one of the earliest observations in modern neuroscience and co...
Adult tissues in multicellular organisms typically contain a variety of stem, progenitor and differe...
SummaryThe evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutio...
Abstract Cells are highly complex and orderly machines, with defined shapes and a startling variety ...
The EMBO/EMBL Symposium on ‘The Identity and Evolution of Cell Types’ took place in Heidelberg, Germ...
Evolutionary developmental biologists categorize many different kinds of things, from ontogenetic st...
Abstract. This paper argues that typical biological species are natural kinds, on a familiar realist...
Multicellular organisms are composed of distinct cell types that have specific roles in the body. Ea...
Here, we propose a new approach to defining nerve cell types in reaction to recent advances in sin...
All aspects of biological diversification ultimately trace to evolutionary modifications at the cell...
Biological species are often taken as counterexamples to essentialist accounts of natural kinds. Ess...
Cell types are composed of cellular modules exerting specific subfunctions. The evolutionary emergen...
The evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutionary tr...
The evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutionary tr...
Despite the traditional focus on metaphysical issues in discussions of natural kinds in biology, epi...
The diversity of brain cell types was one of the earliest observations in modern neuroscience and co...
Adult tissues in multicellular organisms typically contain a variety of stem, progenitor and differe...
SummaryThe evolution of multicellular organisms represents one of approximately eight major evolutio...
Abstract Cells are highly complex and orderly machines, with defined shapes and a startling variety ...
The EMBO/EMBL Symposium on ‘The Identity and Evolution of Cell Types’ took place in Heidelberg, Germ...
Evolutionary developmental biologists categorize many different kinds of things, from ontogenetic st...