He mentioned Robert Rosen, and that's key to this situation. In 1954, Nicholas Rashevsky [1] coined a new term: Relational Biology. The story goes something li

He mentioned Robert Rosen, and that's key to this situation. In 1954, Nicholas Rashevsky [1] coined a new term: Relational Biology. The story goes something like this: you can tease open a living organism under a microscope and count all its parts, but you cannot put it back together, which begs the question "what happened?". Rashevsky reasoned that opening the cell broke all kinds of relationships. He set out to model those relations with graph theory. Turned out that graph theory was not up to the task; his grad student Robert Rosen [2] brought category theory into the mix and offered a solution to Rashevsky's quest. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Rashevsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Rashevsky [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rosen_(biologist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rosen_(biologist)