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Biological individuality : integrating scientific, philosophical, and historical perspectives /
Individuals are things that everybody knows or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different pur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard
- The work of biological individuality: concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart
- Cells, colonies, and clones: individuality in the volvocine algae / Matthew D. Herron
- Individuality and the control of life cycles / Beckett Sterner
- Discovering the ties that bind: cell-cell communication and the development of cell sociology / Andrew S. Reynolds
- Alternation of generations and individuality, 1851 / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard
- Spencer's evolutionary entanglement: from liminal individuals to implicit collectivities / Snait Gissis
- Biological individuality and enkapsis: from Martin Heidenhain's synthesiology to the völkisch national community / Olivier Rieppel
- Parasitology, zoology, and society in France, ca. 1880-1920 / Michael A. Osborne
- Metabolism, autonomy, and individuality / Hannah Landecker
- Bodily parts in the structure-function dialectic / Ingo Brigandt
- Commentaries: historical, biological, and philosophical perspectives
- Distrust that particular intuition: resilient essentialisms and empirical challenges in the history of biological individuality / James Elwick
- Biological individuality: a relational reading / Scott F. Gilbert
- Philosophical dimensions of individuality / Alan C. Love and Ingo Brigandt.