How the leopard changed its spots: the evolution of complextiy
Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? This intervention into biological thinking argues that such genetic reductionism has limits. It shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature.
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- Full title :How the leopard changed its spots : the evolution of complextiy / Brian Goodwin.
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Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? This intervention into biological thinking argues that such genetic reductionism has limits. It shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature.
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- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
Notes
Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1994. With a new preface by the author.
The Physical Object
- Description:xx, 252 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691088098, 9780691088099
- oclc:ocm45223571
- LC Classification:QH366.2
- Dewey Decimal:576.8
Table of Contents
Whatever happened to organisms? -- How the leopard got its spots -- Life, the excitable medium -- Living form in the making -- Evolution of generic forms -- New directions, new metaphors -- Science of qualities.
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