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Plasticity in the Life Sciences
Antonine Nicoglou
(2024)
Sprog: Engelsk
University of Chicago Press
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- Hardback: 320 sider
- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (December 2024)
- ISBN: 9780226837147
Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity.
Plasticity has become an important topic in biology, with some even wondering if it has now acquired the theoretical importance in biology that the concept of the gene enjoyed at the beginning of the last century. In this historical and epistemological study, philosopher Antonine Nicoglou shows how the recurrence of the general idea of plasticity--throughout the history of the life sciences--indicates its essential role in the way we think about life processes. Although plasticity has become a key element in new evolutionary thinking, she argues, its role in contemporary biology is also not insignificant. Rather, as mobilized in contemporary biology, plasticity most often seeks to account for the specific nature of living systems.
The book is divided into two parts. The first takes up the history of plasticity from Aristotle to contemporary biology; the second part offers an original way of distinguishing between different phenomena described by "plasticity." In the process, the author explores what has led some biologists to speak of plasticity as a way of overcoming genetic determinism.
Plasticity has become an important topic in biology, with some even wondering if it has now acquired the theoretical importance in biology that the concept of the gene enjoyed at the beginning of the last century. In this historical and epistemological study, philosopher Antonine Nicoglou shows how the recurrence of the general idea of plasticity--throughout the history of the life sciences--indicates its essential role in the way we think about life processes. Although plasticity has become a key element in new evolutionary thinking, she argues, its role in contemporary biology is also not insignificant. Rather, as mobilized in contemporary biology, plasticity most often seeks to account for the specific nature of living systems.
The book is divided into two parts. The first takes up the history of plasticity from Aristotle to contemporary biology; the second part offers an original way of distinguishing between different phenomena described by "plasticity." In the process, the author explores what has led some biologists to speak of plasticity as a way of overcoming genetic determinism.
Introduction
Part 1. Concepts of Plasticity in the History of the Life Sciences
1. Theories of Plasticity in the Philosophy of Nature
2. The Plastic Embryo
3. The Emergence of an Operational Concept of Plasticity in Genetics
4. Plasticity in Evolutionary Biology: A Boundary Concept
5. Defining Plasticity
Part 2. Biological Plasticity: Two Ways to Explain Variation
6. Biological Plasticity, an Explanans in Developmental Process
7. Biological Plasticity, a Synonym for Biological Regulation?
8. Biological Plasticity, an Explanandum in Evolutionary Process
9. Plasticity in the Evolutionary Developmental Synthesis: Toward an Integration of Explanations?
10. Plasticity in the Life Sciences: Resistance or Recurrence Acknowledgments Notes References Index
Part 1. Concepts of Plasticity in the History of the Life Sciences
1. Theories of Plasticity in the Philosophy of Nature
2. The Plastic Embryo
3. The Emergence of an Operational Concept of Plasticity in Genetics
4. Plasticity in Evolutionary Biology: A Boundary Concept
5. Defining Plasticity
Part 2. Biological Plasticity: Two Ways to Explain Variation
6. Biological Plasticity, an Explanans in Developmental Process
7. Biological Plasticity, a Synonym for Biological Regulation?
8. Biological Plasticity, an Explanandum in Evolutionary Process
9. Plasticity in the Evolutionary Developmental Synthesis: Toward an Integration of Explanations?
10. Plasticity in the Life Sciences: Resistance or Recurrence Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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