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9780822336563

Genes in Development

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822336563

  • ISBN10:

    0822336561

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"Together the essays in "Genes in Development "give lively voice to many of the current alternatives to genetic reductionism. Well-known figures from the debates of the past two decades are represented alongside a good number of emerging scholars."--Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(14)
Eva M. Neumann-Held
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
I. Empirical Approaches
Genome Analysis and Developmental Biology: The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System
15(23)
Thomas R. Burglin
Genes and Form: Inherency in the Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms
38(39)
Stuart A. Newman
Gerd B. Muller
II. Looking Back into History
From Genes as Determinants to DNA as Resource: Historical Notes on Development and Genetics
77(22)
Sahotra Sarkar
III. Theorizing Genes
The Origin of Species: A Structuralist Approach
99(36)
Gerry Webster
Brian C. Goodwin
On the Problem of the Molecular versus the Organismic Approach in Biology
135(17)
Ulrich Wolf
Genes, Development, and Semiosis
152(23)
Jesper Hoffmeyer
The Fearless Vampire Conservator: Philip Kitcher, Genetic Determinism, and the Informational Gene
175(24)
Paul E. Griffiths
Genetics from an Evolutionary Process Perspective
199(39)
James Griesemer
Genes --- Causes --- Codes: Deciphering DNA's Ontological Privilege
238(34)
Eva M. Neumann-Held
Boundaries and (Constructive) Interaction
272(18)
Susan Oyama
Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin
290(23)
Evelyn Fox Keller
Poiesis and Praxis: Two Modes of Understanding Development
313(24)
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
IV. Social and Ethical Implications
Developmental Emergence, Genes, and Responsible Science
337(12)
Brian C. Goodwin
Nothing Like a Gene
349(16)
Jackie Leach Scully
Contributors 365(4)
Index 369

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