Towards a Theory of Development

Herausgeber: Minelli, Alessandro; Pradeu, Thomas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and what the role of models and theories is in developmental biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 188mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780199671434
• ISBN-10: 0199671435
• Artikelnr.: 40544881

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Minelli was Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy, until his retirement in 2011. Following long years of research in biological systematics and phylogenetics, he later moved the focus of his activity towards evolutionary developmental biology. Founding member and former vice-president of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Minelli is member of the editorial board of Evolution & Development, Theory in Biosciences and Frontiers in Zoology. Thomas Pradeu is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at Paris-Sorbonne University. Trained in both philosophy and biology, he is particularly interested in conceptual and theoretical issues of immunology and developmental biology. His research has been published in scientific and philosophical journals, including Biological Theory, Biology and Philosophy, The Lancet, Nature Reviews Immunology, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu: Theories of Development in
Biology - Problems and Perspectives
* 2: Thomas Pradeu: Regenerating Theories in Developmental Biology
* 3: Alan Love: The Erotetic Organization of Developmental Biology
* 4: Johannes Jaeger and James Sharpe: On the Concept of Mechanism in
Development
* 5: Davide Vecchi and Isaac Hernández: The Epistemological Resilience
of the Concept of Morphogenetic Field
* 6: Stuart Newman: Physico-genetics of Morphogenesis: The Hybrid
Nature of Developmental Mechanisms
* 7: Giuseppe Fusco, Roberto Carrer and Emanuele Serrelli: The
Landscape Metaphor in Development
* 8: Scott Gilbert and Jonathan Bard: Formalizing Theories of
Development: A Fugue on the Orderliness of Change
* 9: Wallace Arthur: General Theories of Evolution and Inheritance, but
not Development?
* 10: Jean-Jacques Kupiec: Cell Differentiation Is a Stochastic Process
Subjected to Natural Selection
* 11: Michel Morange: From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks: The
Progressive Historical Construction of a Genetic Theory of
Development and Evolution
* 12: James Griesemer: Reproduction and Scaffolded Developmental
Processes: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective
* 13: Michel Vervoort: Comparison of Animal and Plant Development: A
Right Track to Establish a Theory of Development?
* 14: Armin P. Moczek: Toward a Theory of Development Through a Theory
of Developmental Evolution
* 15: Alessandro Minelli: Developmental Disparity
* 16: Lucie Laplane: Identifying Some Theories in Developmental
Biology. The Case of the Cancer Stem Cell Theory
* 17: Spencer V. Nyholm and Margaret McFall-Ngai: Animal Development in
a Microbial World
* 18: Foreword: a biologist's view by Brian K. Hall
* 19: Foreword: a philosopher's view by Richard M. Burian