Susan Oyama

The Ontogeny of Information

Developmental Systems and Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. This title shows that what developmental information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available.

Produktdetails

• Science and Cultural Theory
• Verlag: Duke University Press / GB Gardners Books
• 2nd, rev. and exp. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324669
• ISBN-10: 0822324660
• Artikelnr.: 21587603

Autorenporträt

Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as in the Subprogram in Developmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Richard Lewontin
Preface to Second Edition
Preface
Introduction
The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy
> The Problem of Change
> Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation
> Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene
> The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine
> The Ontogeny of Information
Reprise
> Prospects
> Afterword to Second Edition
> Notes
> References
> Index of Names
> Index of Subject