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Zusatztext Towards a Theory of Development gathers essays by biologists and philosophers, which display a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The discussions not only cover the state of art, but broaden our vision of what development includes and provide pointers for future research...highly recommended reading for everyone interested in developmental biology. Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Minelli was Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy, until his retirement in 2011. Following long years of research in biological systematics and phylogenetics, he later moved the focus of his activity towards evolutionary developmental biology. Founding member and former vice-president of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Minelli is member of the editorial board of Evolution & Development, Theory in Biosciences and Frontiers in Zoology.Thomas Pradeu is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at Paris-Sorbonne University. Trained in both philosophy and biology, he is particularly interested in conceptual and theoretical issues of immunology and developmental biology. His research has been published in scientific and philosophical journals, including Biological Theory, Biology and Philosophy, The Lancet, Nature Reviews Immunology, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA. Klappentext This volume explores the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and what the role of models and theories is in developmental biology. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and what the role of models and theories is in developmental biology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu: Theories of Development in Biology - Problems and Perspectives 2: Thomas Pradeu: Regenerating Theories in Developmental Biology 3: Alan Love: The Erotetic Organization of Developmental Biology 4: Johannes Jaeger and James Sharpe: On the Concept of Mechanism in Development 5: Davide Vecchi and Isaac Hernández: The Epistemological Resilience of the Concept of Morphogenetic Field 6: Stuart Newman: Physico-genetics of Morphogenesis: The Hybrid Nature of Developmental Mechanisms 7: Giuseppe Fusco, Roberto Carrer and Emanuele Serrelli: The Landscape Metaphor in Development 8: Scott Gilbert and Jonathan Bard: Formalizing Theories of Development: A Fugue on the Orderliness of Change 9: Wallace Arthur: General Theories of Evolution and Inheritance, but not Development? 10: Jean-Jacques Kupiec: Cell Differentiation Is a Stochastic Process Subjected to Natural Selection 11: Michel Morange: From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks: The Progressive Historical Construction of a Genetic Theory of Development and Evolution 12: James Griesemer: Reproduction and Scaffolded Developmental Processes: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective 13: Michel Vervoort: Comparison of Animal and Plant Development: A Right Track to Establish a Theory of Development? 14: Armin P. Moczek: Toward a Theory of Development Through a Theory of Developmental Evolution 15: Alessandro Minelli: Developmental Disparity 16: Lucie Laplane: Identifying Some Theories in Developmental Biology. The Case of the Cancer Stem Cell Theory 17: Spencer V. Nyholm and Margaret McFall-Ngai: Animal Development in a Microbial World 18: Foreword: a biologist's view by Brian K. Hall 19: Foreword: a philosopher's view by Richard M. Burian ...
