| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The epistemology of development, evolution, and genetics/ Richard M. Burian. |
| Reminder of title: |
selected essays / |
| Author: |
Burian, Richard M. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, England ;Cambridge University Press, : 2005., |
| Description: |
xiii, 274 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology |
| [NT 15003449]: |
General Introduction -- How the choice of experimental organism matters: epistemological reflections on an aspect of biological practice -- Unification and coherence as methodological objectives in the biological sciences -- "Adaptation" -- The influence of the evolutionary paadigm -- "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" (Theodosius Dobzhansky) -- On conceptual change in biology: the case of the gene -- Technique, task definition, and the transition from genetics to molecular genetics: aspects of the work on protein synthesis in the laboratories of J. Monod and P. Zamecnik -- Too many kinds of genes? Some problems posed by discontinuities in gene concepts and the continuity of the genetic material -- Lillie's paradox- or some hazards of cellular geography -- On conflicts between genetics and developmental viewpoints- and their attempted resolution in molecular biology -- Reconceiving animals and their evolution: on some consequences of new research on the modularity of development and evolution. |
| Subject: |
Developmental biology - Philosophy. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=132253An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0511080433 (electronic bk.) |