The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. 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 behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
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www.u.arizona.edu/ ~abadyaev/ ECOL596e-papers.html LessReferences to this bookFrom Google ScholarRobert Lickliter, Hunter Honeycutt - 2003 - Psychological Bulletin Matthew C Keller, Geoffrey Miller - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N Laland - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences Paul E Griffiths - 2002 - The Monist Popular passagesInstinct is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance. Page 15 The discovery of regulator and operator genes, and of repressive regulation of the activity of structural genes, reveals that the genome contains not only a series of blue-prints but a co-ordinated program of protein synthesis and the means of controlling its... Page 309 There is an appearance here of infinite regress . . . but this appearance is an artifact of another error of vulgar biology, that it is only the genes that are passed from parent to offspring. In fact, an egg, before fertilization, contains a complete apparatus of production deposited there in the course of its cellular development. We inherit not only genes made of DNA but an intricate structure of cellular machinery made up of proteins. Page 303 In the unidirectional view, the activity of genes and the maturational process are pictured as relatively encapsulated or insulated so that they are uninfluenced by feedback from the maturation process or function, whereas the bidirectional view assumes that genetic activity and maturation are affected by function, activity, or experience. The bidirectional or probabilistic view... Page 46 But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. They are law-code and executive power — or, to use another simile, they (are architect's plan and builder's craft — in one. Page 311 Dawkins (1976) adopted an attractive approach when he wrote: If a computer is doing something clever and lifelike, say playing chess, and we ask how it is doing it, we do not want to hear about transistors, we accept them. ..We need software explanations of behaviour. I do not mean that animals necessarily work like computers. They may be very different. But just as the lowest level of explanation is not always the most appropriate for a computer, no more is it for an animal. Animals and computers... Page 157 By the time of hatching, head-lunging in response to tactual stimulation is very well established (in fact, it plays a major role in the hatching process). The genesis of head-lunging to visual stimulation in the chick has not been analyzed. In Amblystoma, however, Coghill (1929) has shown that a closely analogous shift from tactual to visual control is a consequence of the establishment of certain anatomical relationships between the optic nerve and the brain region which earlier mediated the lunging... Page 27 It suggests some persistent, but fragmentary, 'form of arrangement', and it does not indicate what is very essential to the whole notion, that the organised mass results of past changes of position and posture are actively doing something all the time; are, so to speak, carried along with us, complete, though developing, from moment to moment. Page 277 Certainly by far the most comprehensive and most decisive part of the whole genotype does not seem to be able to segregate in units; and as yet we are mostly operating with "characters," which are rather superficial in comparison with the fundamental Specific or Generic nature of the organism. Page 86 LessContents | 177 | | | | | 195 | | | | | 219 | | | | | 239 | | | | | 283 | | | | | 299 | | | | | 313 | | | | | 333 | | | |
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