The Ontogeny of Information : Developmental Systems and Evolution
In this work, the author attempts to complicate certain conventional dichotomies (particularly the nature/nurture split) that she belives impede scientific inquiry and thought about individual development, and to untangle the often subtle assumptions embe.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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Edición: | 2nd ed., rev. and expanded / |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Lewontin Richard
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy
- 3 The Problem of Change
- 4 Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation
- 5 Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene
- 6 The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine
- 7 The Ontogeny of Information
- 8 Reprise
- 9 Prospects
- Afterword to Second Edition.