Genetics and Philosophy - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Paul Griffiths is University Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He is the author of What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997) and Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology (with K. Sterelny, 1999). He is the editor of Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology (1992), Biology and Philosophy (2000) and Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (with S. Oyama and R. D. Gray, 2001). Klappentext This book integrates the work of philosophers of science seeking to make sense of genetics with an accessible introduction to the science. Zusammenfassung This volume documents how the molecular biosciences have outgrown the nature/nurture distinction! and situates genetics in the context of the developmental biology of whole organisms. For those studying the philosophy of biology! genetics! and other life sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mendel's gene; 2. The physical gene; 3. The behavioural gene; 4. The reactive genome; 5. Outside the gene; 6. The informational gene; 7. The evolving gene.

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• Authors: Paul Griffiths, Paul (University of Sydney) Stotz Griffiths, Karola Stotz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2013
• EAN: 9781107002128
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00212-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works