D. M. Walsh (University of Toronto)

Organisms, Agency, and Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes an alternative theory of evolution as organism-centred, prioritising organisms as adaptive agents and challenging the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution which prioritises genes over organisms. It is of interest to scholars and upper-level students of evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781107552425
• ISBN-10: 1107552427
• Artikelnr.: 50451934

Autorenporträt

D. M. Walsh is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Naturalism, Evolution and Mind (Cambridge, 2001) and the coeditor of Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical and Religious Issues (with R. Paul Thompson, Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing organisms: between unificationism and exceptionalism
Part I. The Eclipse of The Organism: 1. Mechanism, reduction and emergence: of molecules and method
2. Ensemble thinking: struggle and abstraction
3. The fractionation of evolution: struggling or replicating?
Part II. Beyond Replicator Biology: 4. Inheritance: transmission or resemblance?
5. Units of phenotypic control: parity or privilege?
6. Fit and diversity: from competition to complementarity
7. Integrating development: three grades of ontogenetic commitment
Part III. Situated Darwinism: 8. Adaptation: environments and affordances
9. Natural purposes: mechanism and teleology
10. Object and agent: enacting evolution
11. Two neo-Darwinisms: fractionated or situated?
References
Index.