Organisms, Agency, and Evolution

ISBN: 9781107552425 出版年：2015 页码：296 D M Walsh Cambridge University Press

Introducing organisms: between unificationism and exceptionalism Part I. The Eclipse of The Organism: 1. Mechanism, reduction and emergence: of molecules and method 2. Ensemble thinking: struggle and abstraction 3. The fractionation of evolution: struggling or replicating? Part II. Beyond Replicator Biology: 4. Inheritance: transmission or resemblance? 5. Units of phenotypic control: parity or privilege? 6. Fit and diversity: from competition to complementarity 7. Integrating development: three grades of ontogenetic commitment Part III. Situated Darwinism: 8. Adaptation: environments and affordances 9. Natural purposes: mechanism and teleology 10. Object and agent: enacting evolution 11. Two neo-Darwinisms: fractionated or situated? References Index.