Minelli, Alessandro (Editor)
Pradeu, Thomas (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Physical Details: xiii + 283 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Answers to these innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no systematic, targeted effort has been made to construct a unifying theory of development. This text offers a unique exploration of the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores the key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and examines the role of models and theories. This book analyses a wealth of approaches to concepts, models and theories of development, such as gene regulatory networks, accounts based on systems biology and on physics of soft matter, the different articulations of evolution and development, symbiont-induced development, as well as the widely discussed concepts of positional information and morphogenetic field, the idea of a 'programme' of development and its critiques, and the long-standing opposition between preformationist and epigenetic conceptions of development.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Karola Stotz; Paul Griffiths (2015) Review of "Towards a Theory of Development". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 134-138).
Review Kostas Kampourakis (2015) Review of "Towards a Theory of Development". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 199-203).
Review Maienschein, Jane A. (2014) Review of "Towards a Theory of Development". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 299-300).
Chapter Minelli, Alessandro; Pradeu, Thomas (2014) Theories of Development in Biology: Problems and Perspectives. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Pradeu, Thomas (2014) Regenerating Theories in Developmental Biology. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Love, Alan Christopher (2014) The Erotetic Organization of Developmental Biology. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Jaeger, Johannes; Sharpe, James (2014) On the Concept of Mechanism in Development. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Vecchi, Davide; Hernández, Isaac (2014) The Epistemological Resilience of the Concept of Morphogenetic Field. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Newman, Stuart A. (2014) Physico-Genetics of Morphogenesis: The Hybrid Nature of Developmental Mechanisms. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Fusco, Giuseppe; Carrer, Roberto; Serrelli, Emanuele (2014) The Landscape Metaphor in Development. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Gilbert, Scott F.; Bard, Jonathan (2014) Formalizing Theories of Development: A Fugue on the Orderliness of Change. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Arthur, Wallace (2014) General Theories of Evolution and Inheritance, but Not Development?. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Kupiec, Jean-Jacques (2014) Cell Differentiation Is a Stochastic Process Subjected to Natural Selection. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Morange, Michel (2014) From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks: The Progressive Historical Construction of a Genetic Theory of Development and Evolution. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Griesemer, James (2014) Reproduction and Scaffolded Developmental Processes: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Vervoort, Michel (2014) Comparison of Animal and Plant Development: A Right Track to Establish a Theory of Development?. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Moczek, Armin P. (2014) Towards a Theory of Development through a Theory of Developmental Evolution. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Minelli, Alessandro (2014) Developmental Disparity. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Laplane, Lucie (2014) Identifying Some Theories in Developmental Biology: The Case of the Cancer Stem Cell Theory. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
Chapter Nyholm, Spencer V.; McFall-Ngai, Margaret J. (2014) Animal Development in a Microbial World. In: Towards a Theory of Development.
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