The phrase "a reductionist model of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing theories, frameworks, or approaches that simplify complex phenomena by breaking them down into their basic components.
Example: "The researchers proposed a reductionist model of human behavior, focusing solely on genetic factors."
Alternatives: "a simplified framework of" or "a basic representation of".
Some GPs criticise the fact that EBM seems to develop as a reductionist model to judge results of clinical acting.
The aim of this study, as outlined above, was to assess the role of LRRK2 in the regulation of autophagy in a reductionist model, targeting only the kinase activity of the protein.
Using a reductionist model that mimics the role of random mutational processes in the emergence of biodiversity, this board game is a device for initiating and training students in the study of DNA and its relation to evolution.
The current study takes a systems biology approach to identify networks of genes involved in the process without the bias of a reductionist model.
They also illustrate the risk of a reductionist model focusing only on one individual haplogroup without considering more realistic population dynamics; groups of individuals - not just specific lineages - move from one population to another in the presence of a real gene flow, and the mechanisms of diffusion of cultural knowledge may have also differed over time and geographic area.
Our model is an intentionally reductionist model of pure demyelination and remyelination, lacking the complexities of adaptive immune response changes found in multiple sclerosis patients and is clearly not high throughput and not suited to screening for pro-remyelinating targets.
While disclaiming phrenology and acknowledging that all parts of the brain interact, Albright and Ashbrook nonetheless frame their discussion using the reductionist model of a "triune," or three-part, organ.
Examples of similar representation of evolutionary processes, reductionist models of a complex reality, are the classic biomorphs (Dawkins 1986) and the legorgs (Christensen-Dalsgaard and Kanneworff 2009).
Richard Pestell (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) gave an overall introduction to the cell cycle, but stressed that our reductionist models of cyclin action can be misleading (abstract MS1-1 [ 1]).
