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"Susan Oyama's "Ontogeny of Information" provided a navigational chart for researchers seeking to avoid the shoals of the nature-nurture dichotomy. Here, in "Evolution's Eye," she good-humoredly unmasks the rhetorical stratagems of reflexive genecentrism, while continuing to strengthen the case for the integrative, multifocal approach of developmental systems theory."--Helen E. Longino, University of Minnesota
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Looking at Development and Evolution
Transmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity
What Does the Phenocopy Copy? Originals and Fakes in Biology
> Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic
Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective?
> Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change
> The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems
Part 2: Looking at Ourselves Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too
> The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design
Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory
How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves
Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Her book The Ontogeny of Information is also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Suitable for students and scholars who work in the fields of evolution, psychology, human biology, and philosophy of science, this book elaborates on author's work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology.
