Essence in the Age of Evolution, Austin, Christopher J.
Автор: Dennett Daniel C. Название: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds ISBN: 0393355500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393355505 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?
In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don't just perceive and react, they create and comprehend.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.
Автор: Renn, Jurgen Название: Evolution of knowledge ISBN: 0691218595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691218595 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, its going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many wont make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz, These Days is a timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay
Автор: Kendall Eliza Joslin Название: THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN - Revisiting the Vision of Rudolf Steiner for the 21st Century: Our Participation in Earth`s Evolution as the Planet of Love ISBN: 1734262702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781734262704 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Concerned about our planet`s welfare? Want a better, more spiritually illuminated world? New to the work of Rudolf Steiner? Then this book is for you. Making Steiner`s philosophy accessible to the modern mind and soul, it shows how to engage with the spiritual forces directing the Earth`s destined transformation into the planet of Love.
Автор: Niall Shanks, C. Ray Greek Название: Animal Models in Light of Evolution ISBN: 1599425025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781599425023 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 59730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tauber, Alfred I. Название: Immunity The Evolution of an Idea (Hardback) ISBN: 0190651245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190651244 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 72870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges with the environment and the stabilization of cooperative relationships with resident micro-organisms. An expanded account extends immunity's functional role from singular 'defense' to broadened discernment of environmental 'exchange.' This ecological perspective has profound theoretical implications, for the basic notion of immune identity is reconfigured: highlighting the organism as a holobiont (a consortium of diverse organisms living in cooperative relationships) challenges prevailing concepts of individuality and the self/nonself dichotomy heretofore organizing immune theory. Indeed, if theoretical interest is focused on the challenges of maintaining immune balance in the full ecological context of the organism, then immune regulation assumes new complexity. Tauber maintains that the key to unravelling that puzzle requires a critical re-assessment of the cognitive processes that underlie immune effector functions. Accordingly, he provides the outline of a re-formulated 'cognitive paradigm' that dispenses with agent-based models and adopts an ecologically conceived understanding of perception and information processing. The implications of this revised configuration of immunity and its deconstructed notions of individuality and selfhood have wide significance for philosophers and life scientists working in immunology, ecology, and the cognitive sciences.
Автор: Cleland Carol E Название: Quest for a Universal Theory of Life ISBN: 052187324X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521873246 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 70740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores the nature, origin, and extent of life in the universe from both scientific and philosophical perspectives, focusing particularly on the challenge of formulating a universal theory of life in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life. It is a valuable resource for those studying astrobiology and the origins of life.
Автор: Scheiner Samuel M., Mindell David P. Название: The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions ISBN: 022667116X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226671161 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 41190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Darwin's nineteenth-century writings laid the foundations for modern studies of evolution, and theoretical developments in the mid-twentieth century fostered the Modern Synthesis. Since that time, a great deal of new biological knowledge has been generated, including details of the genetic code, lateral gene transfer, and developmental constraints. Our improved understanding of these and many other phenomena have been working their way into evolutionary theory, changing it and improving its correspondence with evolution in nature. And while the study of evolution is thriving both as a basic science to understand the world and in its applications in agriculture, medicine, and public health, the broad scope of evolution--operating across genes, whole organisms, clades, and ecosystems--presents a significant challenge for researchers seeking to integrate abundant new data and content into a general theory of evolution.
This book gives us that framework and synthesis for the twenty-first century. The Theory of Evolution presents a series of chapters by experts seeking this integration by addressing the current state of affairs across numerous fields within evolutionary biology, ranging from biogeography to multilevel selection, speciation, and macroevolutionary theory. By presenting current syntheses of evolution's theoretical foundations and their growth in light of new datasets and analyses, this collection will enhance future research and understanding.
Автор: Tauber Alfred Название: Immunity ISBN: 019091419X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190914196 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges with the environment and the stabilization of cooperative relationships with resident micro-organisms. An expanded account extends immunity's functional role from singular 'defense' to broadened discernment of environmental 'exchange.' This ecological perspective has profound theoretical implications, for the basic notion of immune identity is reconfigured: highlighting the organism as a holobiont (a consortium of diverse organisms living in cooperative relationships) challenges prevailing concepts of individuality and the self/nonself dichotomy heretofore organizing immune theory. Indeed, if theoretical interest is focused on the challenges of maintaining immune balance in the full ecological context of the organism, then immune regulation assumes new complexity. Tauber maintains that the key to unravelling that puzzle requires a critical re-assessment of the cognitive processes that underlie immune effector functions. Accordingly, he provides the outline of a re-formulated 'cognitive paradigm' that dispenses with agent-based models and adopts an ecologically conceived understanding of perception and information processing. The implications of this revised configuration of immunity and its deconstructed notions of individuality and selfhood have wide significance for philosophers and life scientists working in immunology, ecology, and the cognitive sciences.
Автор: Jeler Название: Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution ISBN: 3319786768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319786766 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
1. Chapter 1: Introduction (Ciprian Jeler)
Part I: Historical issues: Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution during the twentieth century
Chapter 2: The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang)
Chapter 3: Tales of a failed scientific revolution. Wynne-Edwards' 'Animal Dispersion'(Mihail-Valentin Cernea)
Chapter 4: Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism (Ryan Ketcham)
Part II: Conceptual issues: Higher-level causes, fitnesses and traits
Chapter 5: Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness (Ciprian Jeler)
Chapter 6: A backward question about multilevel selection: can species selection help disentangle the notion of group selection? (Andreea Eşanu)
Автор: Gebhard Geiger Название: Evolutionary Instability ISBN: 3540518088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540518082 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 102480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The scope of this book can be described best as a compilation of papers presented to an imaginary interdisciplinary conference on philosophical and material problems of biosocial evolution. The conference is espe- cially designed to discuss unifying theoretical approaches to pheno- mena of both increasing structural complexity ("natural self-organi- sation") and biosocial adaptation. Among the contributors to the confe- rence are mathematical system theoretists, philosophers of science, theoretical population biologists, and social scientists. The only diffe- rence to a real conference of this kind is that all contributions are deli- vered by one and the same author, who also tries to integrate them to some higher degree than can normally be attained in conference papers. Technically, this integration amounts to the embedding of the biobeha- vioural concepts of evolutionarily stable and unstable strategies into the framework of the structure and stability of hierarchical systems. When embarking on my work on philosophical and interdisciplinary problems of the life sciences about 6 years ago, I decided not to contri- bute to the obscurantist talk of - horribile dictu - "emergence," "onto- logical reductionism" and the like contaminating the recent sociobio- logy debate. I rather found it a genuinely philosophical task to analyse this talk, and so I attempted to recast the relevant concepts and princip- les into a form allowing for definite conclusions. Among other things, which I hope the reader will find more pleasant, this attempt had some unfortunate effect, however.
Автор: Smit Название: The Social Evolution of Human Nature ISBN: 1107055199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107055193 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current explanations misguidedly use variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind. The author shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin`s theory provides us with far more interesting answers.
Автор: Huxley Название: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ISBN: 1108040489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108040488 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 48570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Published in 1903 and edited by his son Leonard Huxley, this three-volume set is the second, extended edition of the biography and selected letters of `Darwin`s Bulldog`, T. H. Huxley (1825-95). Volume 3 covers the period 1887-95, during which Huxley battled ill-health while continuing to defend his scientific ideals.
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