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Images of development : environmental causes in ontogeny
- Title
- Images of development : environmental causes in ontogeny / Cor van der Weele.
- Author
- Weele, Cor van der, 1954-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999], ©1999.
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- Description
- xvii, 182 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Images of Development questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences. Van der Weele discusses assumptions, explanatory patterns, and conceptual tools in developmental and evolutionary biology and reviews many concrete examples of environmental influence in animal development. She provides perspectives from biology, philosophy of science, and ethics in an integrative way.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: How to Understand Development? -- Ch. 2. Three Causal Approaches -- Ch. 3. Explanations in their Theoretical Context -- Ch. 4. Development and Evolution -- Ch. 5. Environmental Causes in Ontogeny -- Ch. 6. Ethics of Attention.
- ISBN
- 0791440451 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 079144046X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98014899
- OCLC
- ocm38566104
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries