How the Leopard Changed Its Spots (eBook)

The Evolution of Complexity

Brian Goodwin (Autor)

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2020
275 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21780-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive systems. In a new preface for this edition, Goodwin reflects on the advances in both genetics and the sciences of complexity since the book's original publication.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Acanthostega (fossil tetrapod) • Acetabularia • Adaptation • Adaptation and Natural Selection • Agriculture • alternate phyllotaxis • Amoeba • ant colony • Artificial Life • attractor • Attractors • Autopoesis • Bacteria • Barlow, Kenneth • Behavior • Beloussov, Boris • Beloussov-Zhabotinsky reaction • Bifurcations • Biological Process • biologist • Biology • Biotechnology • Calcium • Calculation • Causality • Causation • Cell Biology • cell division • cell membrane • Cellular Automata • Cellular Automaton • chaos theory • Charles Darwin • Chemical Process • Chloroplast • chromosome • Computation • coriolis force • Cytoplasm • Cytoskeleton • Darwin, Charles • Darwinism • Dasycladales (algae) • Developmental Biology • Dolphins • Drosophila • ecosystem • efficacy • Embryo • Emergence • Entropy • Enzyme • Eusociality • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Excitable Media • Excitable medium • Fitness (biology) • fitness landscape • Flagellum • flower primordia • gaia hypothesis • Gamete • Gene • Gene product • genocentric biology • Germ Cell • Germ plasm • Herbicide • heredity • historical explanations • homunculus theory • infarcts • invariant sets • inverse problem • Kant, Immanuel • Lamarckian inheritance • Limb Buds • Mammal • Meristem • meristems • Messenger RNA • Metabolism • Microorganism • microtubule • mitochondrion • Molecule • monocotyledons • Morphogenesis • Morphogenetic field • Moving Boundary Problems • Multicellular organism • Mutation • Natural History • Natural selection • neo-Darwinism • Neurulation • Niles Eldredge • Nucleobase • nutrient • odor • olfactory bulb • organism • Organisms • paramecium • Parameter Space • parastichies • pattern formation • Pesticide • petri dish • Philosopher • Phyllotaxy • physicist • Pierre Duhem • plant cell • Protein • Quantity • quantum mechanics • reagent • reductionism • Reproduction • result • scientific theory • Scientist • Self-Organization • slime mold • Sociobiology • Soil • Sperm • Stuart Kauffman • sustainable agriculture • Taxonomy (biology) • test tube • Tetrapod • theory • the selfish gene • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21780-7 / 0691217807
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21780-2 / 9780691217802