Biological Emergences : Evolution by Natural Experiment.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (536 pages)
- Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Series ; v.7 .
- Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Series .
Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction The Re-invention of Natural Selection -- 1 Paradigm Drift -- 2 Prologue to Emergence -- 3 Evolution by Association -- 4 The Physiological Arena -- 5 Development and Evolution -- 6 Epigenetic Mechanisms -- 7 Orthogenesis -- 8 The Re-invention of Emergence -- 9 From the Particular to the General -- 10 An Emergence Theory -- 11 A Biological Synthesis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.