Towards a Theory of Development
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no systematic, targeted effort has been made to construct a unifying theory of development. This novel work offers a unique exploration of the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores the key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and examines the role of models and theories.The two editors (one a biologist with long interest in the theoretical aspects of his discipline, the other a philosopher of science who has mainly worked on biological systems) have assembled a team of leading contributors who are representative of the scientific and philosophical community within which a diversity of thoughts are growing, and out of which a theory of development may eventually emerge. They analyse a wealth of approaches to concepts, models and theories of development, such as gene regulatory networks, accounts based on systems biology and on physics of soft matter, the different articulations of evolution and development, symbiont-induced development, as well as the widely discussed concepts of positional information and morphogenetic field, the idea of a 'programme' of development and its critiques, and the long-standing opposition between preformationist and epigenetic conceptions of development.
Towards a Theory of Development is primarily aimed at students and researchers in the fields of 'evo-devo', developmental biology, theoretical biology, systems biology, biophysics, and the philosophy of science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Towards a Theory of Development “
- 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
Autoren-Porträt
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 298 Seiten, Maße: 18,9 x 25,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Alessandro Minelli, Thomas Pradeu
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199671427
- ISBN-13: 9780199671427
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[a] splendid book ... The complementary perspectives of the editors helped to bring together an exceptional team of contributors that includes both biologists and philosophers. ... this book should be required reading for philosophers and biologists interested in development or evolutionary developmental biology Kostas Kampourakis, Metascience
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