The tinkerer's accomplice : how design emerges from life itself / J. Scott Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, J. Scott, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural selection.

Adaptation (Physiology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1. Cleanthes' Dilemma

2. Bernard Machines

3. The Joy of Socks

4. Blood River

5. Knowledgeable Bones

6. Embryonic Origami

7. A Gut Feeling

8. An Intentional Aside

9. Points of Light

10. Pygmalion's Gift

11. Biology's Bright Lines

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780674267862

0674267869

9780674044487

0674044487

OCLC:

433612039