Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) - Tapa blanda

 
9780262650632: Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
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ISBN 10: 0262650630 ISBN 13: 9780262650632
Editorial: MIT Press, 2003

Sinopsis

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.

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Acerca del autor

Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at John Jay College, and at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City.

Russell D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland.

Paul E. Griffiths is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Editorial
MIT Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0262650630
ISBN 13 
9780262650632
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
391
Editor
Oyama Susan, Gray Russell D., Griffiths Paul E.
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9780262150538: Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life & Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology & Psychology)

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ISBN 10:  0262150530 ISBN 13:  9780262150538
Editorial: MIT Press, 2001
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