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Fundamental laws and biological laws

In this paper I discuss the problem of scientific laws in general and laws of biology in particular. After reviewing the debate about the existence of laws in biology, I examine the subject under the light of the structuralist notion of a fundamental law and argue for the law of matching as the fundamental law of genetics.

Scientific law; Biological law; Universality; Necessity; A priority; Structuralist conception; Fundamental law; Genetics; Matching law


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