Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
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2001
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Susan Oyama;Paul E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray
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Susan Oyama;Paul E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray
许多关于进化论的书都忽略了产生成熟生物所必需的个体发生（发展）的复杂动力学。他们要么忽略它，要么将其简化为遗传信息的传递。这导致了关于“先天与后天”的无益辩论。发展系统理论（DST）提供了一个新的概念框架来解决这些争论。DST认为个体发生是一系列不同的发展资源之间相互作用的偶然循环，没有一个控制这个过程。这些因素包括DNA、细胞和器官结构以及社会和生态相互作用。DST激发了从分子生物学家到人类学家的广泛研究人员的兴趣，因为它能够整合进化理论和其他学科，而不会陷入传统的对立。这本书提供了DST的历史背景，遗传机制的最新理论发现，DST框架在行为发展中的应用，DST对生物学哲学的影响，以及对DST的批判性反应。
Many books on evolution neglect the complex dynamics of ontogeny (development) necessary to produce the mature creature. They either ignore it or reduce it to the transmission of genetic information. This contributes to unproductive debates on "nature versus nurture". Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions. The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioural development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.