 Network models are also used to study temporal aspects of coordinated processes in cells and the evolutionary dynamics and stability of gene regulatory networks (de Lichtenberg et al. 2005; Hogeweg 2012; Knight &amp; Pinney 2009). Of scientific as well as philosophical relevance is whether and how network approaches can extend mechanistic strategies by identifying how multiple biological processes are  organized and coordinated in time (Green et al. 2018; Bechtel 2020), or, alternatively, provide new types of explanations (Kostić et al. 2020; Suárez &amp; Deulofeu 2019). This topic will be further discussed in Section 4.2.