Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology)

van der Weele, Cor

ISBN 10: 079144046X / ISBN 13: 9780791440469

Published by SUNY Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology)
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079144046X
• ISBN 13: 9780791440469
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences.

Images of Development questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences. Van der Weele discusses assumptions, explanatory patterns, and conceptual tools in developmental and evolutionary biology and reviews many concrete examples of environmental influence in animal development. She provides perspectives from biology, philosophy of science, and ethics in an integrative way.

About the Author

Cor van der Weele is Assistant Professor of Science and Ethics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.