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Explanation in molecular biology: The explanatory force of the details

In this paper, we address the question of abstraction and specification in recent mechanistic debate. Namely, the role these procedures play in explaining biological phenomena, in particular, at the interface between molecular and evolutionary biology. Relatedly, we also address the issue of explanatory relevance, a key feature of the mechanistic accounts of explanation. We asses scientific abstraction, a procedure of ascending to a more general level in understanding target biological phenomena and having its main merits in providing a theoretical framework that allows us to filter and, then, fit into it explanatory relevant data. The explanatory power or force of a scientific explanation, however, consists in delineating the details.

mechanisms ; specification ; abstraction ; details

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