Abstract：
:This article is the result of a symposium organized at the French Academy of Sciences on May 31, 2016, entitled: Do we need to know the causes to understand and intervene? Questions on causality in the biological and medical sciences, and published in French in a book entitled: Causality in the biological and medical sciences (EDP Sciences, 2017).
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C R Bioljournal_title
Comptes rendus biologiesauthors
Bach JFdoi
10.1016/j.crvi.2019.03.001subject
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2019-01-01 00:00:00pages
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1631-0691issn
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