Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
In this work, the author attempts to complicate certain conventional dichotomies (particularly the nature/nurture split) that she belives impede scientific inquiry and thought about individual development, and to untangle the often subtle assumptions embe.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (298 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780822380665
Series Statement:
Science and Cultural Theory Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1167550
DDC:
576.8
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy -- 3 The Problem of Change -- 4 Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation -- 5 Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene -- 6 The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine -- 7 The Ontogeny of Information -- 8 Reprise -- 9 Prospects -- Afterword to Second Edition -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
