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200 1. $a Organisms, agency, and evolution $b Texte imprimé $f D.M. Walsh,...
210 .. $a Cambridge (GB) $c Cambridge university press $d cop. 2015
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XIV-279 p.) $c ill. $d 24 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 248-274
327 1. $a Introducing 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?.
330 .. $a The 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
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