Towards a Theory of Development

ISBN: 9780199671427 出版年：2014 页码：299 Oxford University Press

1. Theories of Development in Biology - Problems and Perspectives 2. Regenerating Theories in Developmental Biology 3. The Erotetic Organization of Developmental Biology 4. On the Concept of Mechanism in Development 5. The Epistemological Resilience of the Concept of Morphogenetic Field 6. Physico-genetics of Morphogenesis: The Hybrid Nature of Developmental Mechanisms 7. The Landscape Metaphor in Development 8. Formalizing Theories of Development: A Fugue on the Orderliness of Change 9. General Theories of Evolution and Inheritance, but not Development? 10. Cell Differentiation Is a Stochastic Process Subjected to Natural Selection 11. From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks: The Progressive Historical Construction of a Genetic Theory of Development and Evolution 12. Reproduction and Scaffolded Developmental Processes: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective 13. Comparison of Animal and Plant Development: A Right Track to Establish a Theory of Development? 14. Toward a Theory of Development Through a Theory of Developmental Evolution 15. Developmental Disparity 16. Identifying Some Theories in Developmental Biology. The Case of the Cancer Stem Cell Theory 17. Animal Development in a Microbial World 18. Foreword: a biologist's view by Brian K. Hall 19. Foreword: a philosopher's view by Richard M. Burian