Entangled life organism and environment in the biological and social sciences /
This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this entanglement is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a range of new perspectives, methods, and framew...
| Other Authors: | Barker, Gillian,, Desjardins, Eric, 1975-, Pearce, Trevor,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2013?]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (vi, 279 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ;
v. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life; Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce
- Part I. Historical Perspectives
- The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction; Trevor Pearce
- James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the American Immigrant Crisis at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Christopher D. Green
- The Tension between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological; Harry Heft
- New Perspectives on Organism-Environment Interaction in Anthropology; Emily A. Schultz
- Part II. Contested Models
- Adaptation, Adaptation to, and Interactive Causes; Bruce Glymour
- Environmental Grain, Organism Fitness, and Type Fitness; Marshall Abrams
- Models in Context: Biological and Epistemological Niches; Jessica A. Bolker
- Thinking Outside the Mouse: Organism-Environment Interaction and Human Immunology; Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker, and Joaquin Madrenas
- Part III. Emerging Frameworks
- Integrating Ecology and Evolution: Niche Construction and Ecological Engineering; Gillian Barker and John Odling-Smee
- The Affordance Landscape: The Spatial Metaphors of Evolution; Denis M. Walsh
- Rethinking Behavioral Evolution; Rachael Brown. Constructing the Cooperative Niche; Kim Sterelny.