Organisms and artifacts : design in nature and elsewhere /

In Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens investigates the analogical use of the language of design in evolutionary biology. Uniquely among the natural sciences, biology uses descriptive and explanatory terms more suited to artifacts than organisms. When biologists discuss, for example, the purpose of...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lewens, Tim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
©2004
Series:Life and mind.
Subjects:
Biology > Philosophy.
Biologie > Philosophie.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biology > Philosophy
Vormgeving.
Analogieën.
Biologie.
Evolutie.
PHILOSOPHY/General
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