So almost all the biology that we observe can be thought of as a series of problems and their corresponding solutions, and the first problem that every organ must solve is a continuous supply of nutrients to fuel all those cells of the body.
Biology, we now realize, is indeed largely an autonomous science and a philosophy of biology must be based primarily on the peculiar characteristics of the living world, recognizing at the same time that this is not in conflict with a strictly physicochemical explanation at the cellular-molecular level 1.
I had not taken any biology, even in college, so I had to go from a biology textbook to a college-level textbook and then medical textbook and the journal articles, back and forth, and eventually I knew enough to think that it might be possible that somebody could find a cure.
Second, biology is all around us, is vastly complicated, and encompasses disciplines such as medicine, agriculture, conservation, and computer science, as well as many others, thus lending itself to the kind of interdisciplinary approaches that make science such fun and can easily lead into new territory.
You could think of it as a literary approach, but then again, biology is a science that studies humans as creatures in nature, how they relate to other animals and plants, what sort of systems they are made up of, and how those systems work. So I think there's something similar in the way I see things when I'm writing.
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