Titlebook: Mapping the Future of Biology; Evolving Concepts an Anouk Barberousse,Michel Morange,Thomas Pradeu Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Medi

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Novelty, Plasticity and Niche Construction: The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Evolution,emental conception of evolutionary change with the evolution of qualitatively new structures, especially complex new structures (Nitecki 1990). While it is easy to see how an existing trait could be elaborated incrementally, it is much harder to see there could be (say) an incremental, and increment

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The Evolution of Complexity,way to measure complexity, it is hard to deny that the earliest prokaryotic cells were simpler than the eukaryotic cells that arose from them, and these were simpler than the multicellular life forms that evolved from them, and so on. But it is controversial how to interpret and explain this trend,

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Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Origin of Life,nd uncertainty over the meaning of the term remains widespread. Usage has varied greatly since the term was first introduced in 1790, and a very crude taxonomy might arrange its various meanings according to three different contexts, in three different time periods, roughly corresponding to the biol

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Articulating Different Modes of Explanation: The Present Boundary in Biological Research,ls that require highly complex mathematical tools and either raise “big” biological issues, such as the meaning of sex or the significance of the ageing process, or conversely focus on the explanation of “local” facts, the characteristics of such and such an animal and plant population, and their recent evolution.

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0068-0346 retical attidues by important participants in rencent biologCarving Nature at its Joints? In order to map the future of biology we need to understand where we are and how we got there. Present day biology is the realization of the famous metaphor of the organism as a bete ˆ machine elaborated by Des

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Self-Organization and Complexity in Evolutionary Theory, or, in this Life the Bread Always Falls Jahose that do succeed tend to have features different from the losers, it is these differences that make for success, and so over time there is heritable change (evolution) and this is in the direction of help-conferring characteristics, or adaptations.

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