whatever one calls them—theories, laws, models, hypotheses, patterns—all efforts to find order in our universe can never fully capture the reality of nature. The patterns we uncover are merely reflections of that reality—some better, some worse, whose recognition brings us some sense of order to the complex world that we find ourselves in. The preceding discussion will now assist us in addressing a central issue in the continuing search for biological understanding—the issue of reduction versus holism.
