Organisms, agency, and evolution

by Walsh, D. M.

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 279 p. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1107122104, 9781107122109 (hbk)
oclc:ocn983211278
LC Classification:QH366.2.W355 2016
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 persistence? -- 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?.