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It might be thought that this book is about methods, and, as is often supposed, that the field of biophysics is defined as a collection of such methods. But, as is carefully developed in the text, there is a deeper significance – methods define what we (provisionally) know about the world of biological molecules, and biophysics is a field that integrates pieces of information to give substance to our explanations of biology in terms of macromolecular space and time: structure, interactions and dynamics. Two interrelated ideas that biophysicists employ are the structure–function hypothesis and evolution.
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It might be thought that this book is about methods, and, as is often supposed, that the field of biophysics is defined as a collection of such methods. But, as is carefully developed in the text, there is a deeper significance – methods define what we (provisionally) know about the world of biological molecules, and biophysics is a field that integrates pieces of information to give substance to our explanations of biology in terms of macromolecular space and time: structure, interactions and dynamics. Two interrelated ideas that biophysicists employ are the structure–function hypothesis and evolution.
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