Evolution's eye : a systems view of the biology-culture divide / Susan Oyama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oyama, Susan.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Science and cultural theory.

Science and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Genetic psychology.

System theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

Abridged.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collection of essays by Susan Oyama looking at the implications of developmental systems approach for evolutionary theory, specifically for nature-nurture oppositions, ideas of essential human nature, and the limits of human agency and possibility.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I Looking at Development and Evolution

1 Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity

2 What Does the Phenocopy Copy?

3 Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective?

4 Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change

5 Ontogeny and Phylogeny: A Case of Meta-Recapitulation?

6 The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems

Part II Looking at Ourselves

7 Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little

8 The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design

9 Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory

10 How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves

11 Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary.

Notes:

Complete ed. first published in 1954 under title: Roman Catholicism against itself.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.

ISBN:

9781283062022

128306202X

9780822380658

082238065X

OCLC:

220950125