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Table 3.1 Three stages of development of human knowledge.

Field Description Organization Theory Building

Physics Atomic spectra

(e.g., Lyman,

Balmer, Ritz-

Paschen, etc.

series of

hydrogen atomic

spectral lines in

the 19th century)

Bohr’s atomic model

(1913)

Quantum mechanics (1926)

Chemistry Chemical structures

and chemical

reactions (since

the Middle Ages,

5th–15th

century)

Periodic table (1869) Thermodynamics (19th

century)

Statistical mechanics (late 19th

and early 20th centuries)

Kinetic theory (early 20th

century)

Theory of self-organization

(latter half of the 20th

century)

Linguistics Descriptive

linguistics (since

the 6th–5th

century BC?)

Grammars and

lexicons (from 5th

century BC to

10th century AD?)

F. de Saussure’s linguistics

C. S. Peirce’s semiotics

N. Chomsky’s universal

grammar (19th–20th

centuries)

Biology Descriptive biology

(since the time

of Aristotle in

the 4th century

BC)

Cell doctrine

(1838–1839)

Cell structure (19th

century)

Metabolic pathways

(1930s)

DNA double helix

(1953)

Genetic code (1961)

Signal transduction

pathways and

genetic networks

(second half of the

20th century)

Darwin’s theory of evolution

(1859)

Induced-fit hypothesis of

enzymic catalysis

(1958) [28]

Allosterism (1965) [134, 135]

Biocybernetics (1972–1991)

[7]

Conformon theory

(1972–1974) [6, 65]

The cell force postulate

(1991–2012) [7]

Cell language theory

(1995–2000) [19–23]

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