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Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
This title shows the advantages of a Lamarckian perspective on evolution. Indeed the development-oriented approach it presents is becoming central to current evolutionary studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295642
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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Modularity :understanding the development and evolution of natural complex sy…
Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicit…
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- 9780262269698
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) :illustrations.
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The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
"A Bradford book."The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from…
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- 1 online resource (256 pages) :illustrations
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Norms of nature :naturalism and the nature of functions
Originally published: 2001.The components of living systems strike us as functional-as for the sake of certain ends--and as endowed with specific norms of performance. The mammalian eye, for example, has the function of perceiving and processing light, and possession of this property tempts us to claim that token eyes are supposed to perceive and process light. That is, we tend to evaluate the …
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262271257
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution
"The fish's streamlined shape reveals functional knowledge of the physical properties of water.... The deadly effectiveness of the cobra's venom shows useful knowledge of the physiology of its prey.... Indeed, knowledge itself may be broadly conceived as the fit of some aspect of an organism to some aspect of its environment, whether it be the fit of the butterfly's long siphon of a mouth to th…
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Without miracles :universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolut…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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