Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution
Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution
Taking Development Seriously
Jason Scott Robert, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
November 2006
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Paperback
9780521030861
Philosophers of science have tended to avoid the problem of "development" by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics. Jason Scott Robert explores the nature of development as it relates to current concepts in biological theory and practice and analyzes the interrelations between development and evolution (evo-devo), an area of resurgent biological inquiry.
- One of the few book-length treatments of developmental science
- Puts development science back at the forefront of biological inquiry
Reviews & endorsements
"Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution suggests a target audience of philosophers of science and of biology, but I hope the book will be more widely read. It might start a productive exchange between biologists and philosophers on how to overcome the limitations of our knowledge." Science
Product details
November 2006Paperback
9780521030861
176 pages
228 × 151 × 10 mm
0.271kg
12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1. The problem of development
- 2. Exemplars
- 3. Scylla and Charybdis
- 4. Constitutive epigenetics
- 5. Creative development
- 6. A new synthesis?
- 7. The devil is in the Gestalt
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
