Evolution's Eye - A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide

"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
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Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of Genetic
Programming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective?
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Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change
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The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems

Part 2: Looking at Ourselves

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

Summary

Elaborates on author's pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Oyama
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2000
• EAN: 9780822324720
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2472-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Science and Cultural Theory; Science and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Anthropologie, Entwicklungspsychologie, Humanbiologie, Psychologie: Theorien und Denkschulen, Entwicklungsbiologie