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020			_a9781316402719 (ebook)
020			_z9781107122109 (hardback)
020			_z9781107552425 (paperback)
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050	0	0	_aQH366.2 _b.W355 2015
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100	1		_aWalsh, D. M., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOrganisms, agency, and evolution / _cD.M. Walsh, University of Toronto.
246	3		_aOrganisms, Agency, & Evolution
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
505	0		_aIntroducing organisms : between unificationism and exceptionalism -- The eclipse of the organism -- Mechanism, reduction, and emergence : of molecules and method -- Ensemble thinking : struggle and abstraction -- The fractionation of evolution : struggling or replicating? -- Beyond replicator biology -- Inheritance : transmission or resemblance? -- Units of phenotypic control : parity or privilege? -- Fit and diversity : from competition to complementarity -- Integrating development : three grades of ontogenetic commitment -- Situated Darwinism -- Adaptation : environments and affordances -- Natural purposes : mechanism and teleology -- Object and agent : enacting evolution -- Two neo-darwinisms : fractionated or situated?.
520			_aThe central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the 'struggle for life'. By contrast, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution, which rose to prominence in the twentieth century, presents evolution as a fundamentally molecular phenomenon, occurring in populations of sub-organismal entities - genes. After nearly a century of success, the Modern Synthesis theory is now being challenged by empirical advances in the study of organismal development and inheritance. In this important study, D. M. Walsh shows that the principal defect of the Modern Synthesis resides in its rejection of Darwin's organismal perspective, and argues for 'situated Darwinism': an alternative, organism-centred conception of evolution that prioritises organisms as adaptive agents. His book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology.
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology)
650		0	_aAgent (Philosophy)
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107122109
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402719
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