Biological Individuality

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Biological Individuality

Author	: Alison K. McConwell
File Size	: 40,7 Mb
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 March 2023
ISBN	: 9781108944403
Pages	: 176 pages

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Biological Individuality by Alison K. McConwell Book PDF Summary

This Element develops a view about biological individuality's value in two ways: while biological individuality matters for its theoretical and methodological roles in the production of scientific knowledge, its historical use in promoting the politics of social ideologies concerning progress and perfection of humanity's evolutionary future must not be ignored. Recent trends in biological individuality are analyzed and set against the history of evolutionary thought drawing from the early twentieth century.

Biological Individuality by Scott Lidgard,Lynn K. Nyhart

Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different purposes—defining, classifying, or

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Biological Individuality by Alison K. McConwell

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Biological Individuality by Scott Lidgard,Lynn K. Nyhart

Introduction: working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard -- The work of biological individuality: concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart -- Cells, colonies, and clones: individuality in the volvocine algae / Matthew D. Herron -- Individuality and the control of life cycles / Beckett Sterner --

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Biological Individuality by Jack Wilson

"This is a book of interest to philosophers of biology, metaphysicians, and biologists."--BOOK JACKET.

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From Groups to Individuals by Frederic Bouchard,Philippe Huneman

The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings. Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although organisms have served

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Biological Individuality by Alison K. McConwell

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The Evolution of Individuality by Leo W. Buss

Leo Buss expounds a general theory of development through a simple hierarchical extension of the synthetic theory of evolution. He perceives innovations in development to have evolved in ancestral organisms where the germ line was not closed to genetic variation arising during the course of ontogeny. Originally published in 1988. The

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Biological Identity by Anne Sophie Meincke,John Dupré

Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of identity. This development within metaphysics is in significant tension with

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