Organisms, agency, and evolution

by Walsh, Denis M.

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Full title :Organisms, agency, and evolution / D.M. Walsh,....

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015, cop. 2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015, cop. 2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (XIV-279 p.) : : ill. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107122109, 1107122104
oclc:ocn935907756
LC Classification:QH366.2
Dewey Decimal:576.8

Introducing organisms : between unificationism and exceptionalism -- The eclipse of the organism -- Mechanism, reduction, and emergence : of molecules and method -- Ensemble thinking : struggle and abstraction -- The fractionation of evolution : struggling or replicating? -- Beyond replicator biology -- Inheritance : transmission or resemblance? -- Units of phenotypic control : parity or privilege? -- Fit and diversity : from competition to complementarity -- Integrating development : three grades of ontogenetic commitment -- Situated Darwinism -- Adaptation : environments and affordances -- Natural purposes : mechanism and teleology -- Object and agent : enacting evolution -- Two neo-darwinisms : fractionated or situated?.

Subjects

Agent (philosophie) Agent (Philosophy) Biological Evolution Biologie Darwinisme Évolution Évolution (Biologie) Evolution (Biology) Évolutionnisme Néo-darwinisme Philosophie