Oyama / Smith / Weintraub Evolution's Eye

A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8065-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

Collection of essays by Susan Oyama looking at the implications of developmental systems approach for evolutionary theory, specifically for nature-nurture oppositions, ideas of essential human nature, and the limits of human agency and possibility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oyama, Susan

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Looking at Development and Evolution 1 Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity 2 What Does the Phenocopy Copy? 3 Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective? 4 Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change 5 Ontogeny and Phylogeny: A Case of Meta-Recapitulation? 6 The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems Part II Looking at Ourselves 7 Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little 8 The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design 9 Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory 10 How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves 11 Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary Notes References Index of Subjects and Names

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Her book The Ontogeny of Information is also published by Duke University Press.