The ontogeny of information : developmental systems and evolution
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The ontogeny of information : developmental systems and evolution
（Science and cultural theory）
Duke University Press, 2000
2nd ed., rev. and expanded / foreword by Richard C. Lewontin
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Originally published in 1985 by Cambridge University Press
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-260) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them.
Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the environment. When something wondrous occurs in the world, we tend to question whether the information guiding the transformation was pre-encoded in the organism or installed through experience or instruction. Oyama looks beyond this either-or question to focus on the history of such developments. She shows that what developmental "information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available. She terms this process "constructive interactionism," whereby each combination of genes and environmental influences simultaneously interacts to produce a unique result. Ontogeny, then, is the result of dynamic and complex interactions in multileveled developmental systems.
The Ontogeny of Information challenges specialists in the fields of developmental biology, philosophy of biology, psychology, and sociology, and even nonspecialists, to reexamine the existing nature-nurture dichotomy as it relates to the history and formation of organisms.
目次
Foreword / Richard Lewontin
Preface to Second Edition
Preface
Introduction
The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy
The Problem of Change
Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation
Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene
The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine
The Ontogeny of Information
Reprise
Prospects
Afterword to Second Edition
Notes
References
Index of Names
Index of Subject
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