Mapping the Future of Biology Evolving Concepts and Theories /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barberousse, Anouk (Editor), Morange, Michel (Editor), Pradeu, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 266
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Philosophy and science.; Biology > Philosophy.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Philosophy of Biology.; Philosophy of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.; Developmental Biology.

This volume is the best available tool to compare and appraise the different approaches of today’s biology and their conceptual frameworks, serving as a springboard for new research on a clarified conceptual basis. It is expected to constitute a key reference work for biologists and philosophers of...

Table of Contents:

• Articulating Different Modes of Explanation: The Present Boundary in Biological Research
• Compromising Positions: The Minding\newline of Matter
• Abstractions, Idealizations, and Evolutionary Biology
• The Adequacy of Model Systems for Evo-Devo: Modeling the Formation of Organisms/ Modeling the Formation of Society
• Niche Construction in Evolution, Ecosystems and Developmental Biology
• Novelty, Plasticity and Niche Construction: The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Evolution
• The Evolution of Complexity
• Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Origin of Life
• Self-Organization and Complexity in Evolutionary Theory, or, in this Life the Bread Always Falls Jammy Side Down.