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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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What Is a Mechanism?
Scientists use the term mechanism just all over the place ind the life sciences. The question has to do more with em what is a mechanism? Once you've accepted that it's a bunch of causes, what else? What else needs to be characteristic of a system to call it a mechanism? Aside from that we all kind of agree that mechanisms have more than one cause and that they're working together to produce an outcome.
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