Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences

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ISBN9781108940498
PublisherCambridge University Press
Price (excl. tax)€18.77
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Price (incl. tax)€19.90
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Written for a general audience interested in how metaphorical language and thinking is used by life scientists to conceptualize and understand subjects from molecular genetics and cell biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine. It reveals the positive and negative implications of metaphors for scientific theory, communication, and education.