Lifelines : biology, freedom, determinism
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Lifelines : biology, freedom, determinism
（Penguin science）
Penguin Books, 1998, c1997
Available at 2 libraries
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane The Penguin press, 1997
"Published in Penguin Books 1998" -- T.p. verso
Bibliography: p.310-319
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Steven Rose offers a response to those enthusiasts of the gene who insist that all aspects of human life are in our genes and the inevitable consequences of natural selection. He argues that life depends on the elaborate web of interactions that occur within cells, organisms and ecosystems, in which DNA plays a part among many. If we are to understand life, we must recapture an understanding of the entire organism and its trajectory through time and space - it is these trajectories that Rose calls "lifelines".
Table of Contents
- Biology, freedom, determinism
- observing and interventing
- knowing what we know
- the triumph of reductionism?
- genes and organisms
- lifelines
- universal Darwinism
- origin myths
- the poverty of reductionism
- envoi making biology whole again.
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