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Conceptual Change in Biology Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development /

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Dev...

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Other Authors: Love, Alan C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 307
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Biology—Philosophy.
Evolutionary biology.
Embryology.
History.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of Biology.
Evolutionary Biology.
History, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9412-1
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Developmental Biology; Alan C. Love
  • PART I: ADAPTATION, ALLOMETRY, HETEROCHRONY AND HOMOPLASY
  • Chapter 2: Adaptive Aspects of Development: A Thirty-year Perspective on the Relevance of Biomechanical and Allometric Analyses; Karl Niklas
  • Chapter 3: Do Functional Requirements for Embryos and Larvae Have a Place in Evo-devo? Richard Strathmann
  • Chapter 4: Is Heterochrony Still an Effective Paradigm for Contemporary Studies of Evo-devo? James Hanken
  • Chapter 5: Homoplasy, a Moving Target; David Wake
  • PART II: PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
  • Chapter 6: The Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Life History Traits; Stephen Stearns
  • Chapter 7: A Developmental-physiological Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity; H. Fred Nijhout
  • Chapter 8: Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change: A Retrospective from the Vantage Point of Developmental Signaling Pathways; John Gerhart
  • Chapter 9: The Road to Facilitated Variation; Marc Kirschner
  • PART III: MODELS, LARVAE, PHYLA AND PALEONTOLOGY
  • Chapter 10: Phyla, Phylogeny, and Embryonic Body Plans; Gary Freeman
  • Chapter 11: Evo-devo and the Evolution of Marine Larvae: From the Modern World to the Dawn of the Metazoa; Rudolf Raff
  • Chapter 12: Dahlem 1981: Before and Beyond; Armand de Ricqlès
  • Chapter 13: What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us about Evo-devo; James Griesemer
  • PART IV: CONSTRAINT AND EVOLVABILITY
  • Chapter 14: From Developmental Constraint to Evolvability: How Concepts Figure in Explanation and Disciplinary Identity; Ingo Brigandt
  • Chapter 15: Reinventing the Organism: Evolvability and Homology in Post-Dahlem Evolutionary Biology; Günter Wagner
  • Chapter 16: Internal Factors in Evolution: The Morphogenetic Tree, Developmental Bias, and Some Thoughts on the Conceptual Structure of Evo-devo; Wallace Arthur
  • Chapter 17: Entrenchment as a Theoretical Tool in Evolutionary Developmental Biology; William Wimsatt
  • PART V: HIERARCHIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
  • Chapter 18: Hierarchies and Integration in Evolution and Development; Marvalee Wake
  • Chapter 19: Development and Evolution: The Physics Connection; Stuart Newman
  • Chapter 20: The Interaction of Research Systems in the Evo-devo Juncture; Elihu Gerson
  • Chapter 21: Evo-devo as a Trading Zone; Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
  • Index.

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