Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)
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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.
About the Author
Cor van der Weele is Assistant Professor of Science and Ethics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
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Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology),Cor Van Der Weele,State University of New York Press,079144046X,Developmental biology,Ecology,Ethics & Moral Philosophy,Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Evolution,Ontogeny,Philosophy,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Science
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