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Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution » (Reprint)

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Authors: Susan Oyama (Editor), Paul E. Griffiths (Editor), Russell D. Gray
ISBN-13: 9780262650632, ISBN-10: 0262650630
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Susan Oyama

Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at John Jay College, and at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City.

Paul E. Griffiths is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Russell D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland.

Book Synopsis

Provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity,
applications of the DST framework to behavioral development,
implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1Introduction: What Is Developmental Systems Theory?
IInfluences
2Toward a Systems View of Development: An Appraisal of Lehrman's Critique of Lorenz
3A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior
4A Developmental Psychobiological Systems View: Early Formulation and Current Status
5Gene, Organism and Environment: A New Introduction
6Gene, Organism and Environment
IIRethinking Heredity
7Let's Talk about Genes: The Process Molecular Gene Concept and Its Context
8Deconstructing the Gene and Reconstructing Molecular Developmental Systems
9The Systems of Inheritance
10Niche Construction, Ecological Inheritance, and Cycles of Contingency in Evolution
IIIThe Development of Phenotypes and Behavior
11The Ontogeny of Phenotypes
12The Development of Ant Colony Behavior
13Behavioral Development and Darwinian Evolution
14Parental Care and Development
IVRethinking Development and Evolution
15Terms in Tension: What Do You Do When All the Good Words Are Taken?
16Darwinism and Developmental Systems
17Generative Entrenchment and the Developmental Systems Approach to Evolutionary Processes
18Developmental Systems, Darwinian Evolution, and the Unity of Science
19From Complementarity to Obviation: On Dissolving the Boundaries between Social and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Psychology
VResponses to Developmental Systems Theory
20On the Status and Explanatory Structure of Developmental Systems Theory
21Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin
22Distributed Agency within Intersecting Ecological, Social, and Scientific Processes
23Niche Construction, Developmental Systems, and the Extended Replicator
24Developmental Systems Theory and Ethics: Different Ways to Be Normative with Regard to Science
Index

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