Susan Oyama

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

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Produktbeschreibung

"Susan Oyama's "Ontogeny of Information" provided a navigational chart for researchers seeking to avoid the shoals of the nature-nurture dichotomy. Here, in "Evolution's Eye," she good-humoredly unmasks the rhetorical stratagems of reflexive genecentrism, while continuing to strengthen the case for the integrative, multifocal approach of developmental systems theory."--Helen E. Longino, University of Minnesota

Produktdetails

• Science and Cultural Theory
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324720
• ISBN-10: 0822324725
• Artikelnr.: 21024619

Autorenporträt

Susan Oyama

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Looking at Development and Evolution
Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity
What Does the Phenocopy Copy? Originals and Fakes in Biology
> Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic
Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective?
> Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change
> The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems
Part 2: Looking at Ourselves
Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too
> The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design
Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory
How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves
Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary
Notes
References
Index