Conference on Foundations of Developmental Biology, Sante FeNM, October 1989

这次会议将汇集20位生物学哲学家、发育生物学家、进化生物学家和理论生物学家，研究发育生物学中出现的一些哲学和概念问题及其对进化的影响。三个重点领域将涉及：1)理论在发育生物学中的地位；2)自组织和选择作为发展和进化中的平衡和协作过程；以及3)适当的发展理论对进化的影响。其中一些问题并不新鲜，另一些问题从未得到解决。特别是，自我组织和选择的相互交织的作用构成了一个巨大的新问题领域，在物理学中从未遇到过，在生物学中也没有得到很好的阐述。该小组将聚集在一起，包括哲学和生物学领域的专业知识，这些领域与突袭的问题有关。其目的是为在这三个领域中的每一个领域的发展制定一个明确的研究计划。这次会议的结果有望发表在《生物学季刊》上，圣达菲研究所也有可能以单册的形式发表。

This conference will bring together 20 philosophers of biology, developmental biologists, evolutionary biologists, and theoretical biologists to examine a number of philosophical and conceptual issues which arise in developmental biology and its implications for evolution. The three focal areas will concern: 1) the place of theory in developmental biology; 2) self- organization and selection as balancing and collaborative processes in development and evolution; and 3) implications of a proper theory of development for evolution. Some of these issues are not new, others have never been addressed. In particular, the intertwined roles of self-organization and selection constitute a large new problem area never confronted in physics, nor yet well formulated in biology. The group which will come together includes expertise in a variety of areas of philosophy and biology which bear on the issues raided. The aim is to produce a clear statement of research programs to advance in each of the three domains. The results of the conference will hopefully be published in the Quarterly Review of Biology, and also will likely be published in a single volume from the Santa Fe Institute.