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We should not imagine that Systems Biology was born yesterday, indeed von Bertalanffy was a well-known supporter of the need to approach biological entities from the notion of a system. There is a tradition, dating back to early times, calling for the study of living things as a whole. Holism is no stranger to modern Systems Biology and, likewise, von Bertalanffy supported the quantitative study of the whole from the interaction of its parts.
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Moya, A. (2015). General Systems Theory and Systems Biology. In: The Calculus of Life. SpringerBriefs in Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16970-5_5
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