Evolution's Eye : A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Looking at Development and Evolution -- 1. Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity -- 2. What Does the Phenocopy Copy? -- 3. Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic Programming in...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Looking at Development and Evolution -- 1. Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity -- 2. What Does the Phenocopy Copy? -- 3. Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective? -- 4. Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change -- 5. Ontogeny and Phylogeny: A Case of Meta-Recapitulation? -- 6. The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems -- Part II Looking at Ourselves -- 7. Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little -- 8. The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design -- 9. Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory -- 10. How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves -- 11. Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary -- Notes -- References -- Index of Subjects and Names Ausführliche Beschreibung