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Francisco Varela
Francisco Javier Varela Garcia was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology. His mother was from Syria and his father was son of the Spanish emigrant, Alejandro Varela and Greek emigrant Anastassia Karri.
Life
Like his mentor Humberto Maturana, Varela studied first medicine then biology in Chile, then did a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University. His thesis, defended in 1970 and supervised by Torsten Wiesel, was titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye.
After the 1973 military coup led by ...
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