The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

Informationen zum Autor Ron Amundson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Hilo. Klappentext Examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology. Zusammenfassung Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Darwin's Century: Beyond the Essentialism Story: 2. Systematics and the birth of the natural system; 3. The origins of morphology, the science of form; 4. Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor; 5. Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists; 6. Interlude; Part II. Neo-Darwin's Century: Explaining the Absence and the Reappearance of Development in Evolutionary Thought: 7. The invention of heredity; 8. Basics of the evolutionary synthesis; 9. Structuralist reactions to the synthesis; 10. The synthesis matures; 11. Recent debates and the continuing tension.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Amundson, Ronald Amundson
• Assisted by: Michael Ruse (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2005
• EAN: 9780521806992
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80699-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering