Even with those in hand there are problems with the use of reductionistic approaches to complex systems. (nutritionfacts.org)
The mechanistic tradition began with Descartes, became radically reductionistic in the mid-nineteenth century, and achieved dominance in biology after Darwin proposed a completely materialistic mechanism for evolution. (firstthings.com)
C. H. Waddington sees an interaction between the purposive behavior of animals and their environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations of neo-Darwinism. (religion-online.org)