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Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco and William C. Wimsatt

by Carl Gillett

ISBN: 9780262045339

Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning

The Wordbank Project

by Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky, Daniel Yurovsky and Virginia A. Marchman

ISBN: 9780262045100

A data-driven exploration of children's early language learning across different languages, providing an empirical reference and a new theoretical framework.

Blueprint, with a new afterword

Blueprint

How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

by Robert Plomin

ISBN: 9780262537988

A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.

Chimeras and Consciousness

Evolution of the Sensory Self

Edited by Lynn Margulis, Celeste A. Asikainen and Wolfgang E. Krumbein

ISBN: 9780262515832

Scientists elucidate the astounding collective sensory capacity of Earth and its evolution through time.

From Embryology to Evo-Devo

A History of Developmental Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein

ISBN: 9780262513340

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.

Modularity

Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

Edited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman

Foreword by Herbert A. Simon

With Konrad Lorenz Institute

ISBN: 9780262513265

Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.

Integrating Evolution and Development

From Theory to Practice

Edited by Roger Sansom and Robert N. Brandon

ISBN: 9780262693530

Scholars argue for the importance of the developmental synthesis, or evo-devo, discussing the history and potential of this growing field of study and presenting specific case studies.

Modeling Biology

Structures, Behaviors, Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller

ISBN: 9780262538152

Experts examine new modeling strategies for the interpretation of biological data and their integration into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, detailing approaches that focus on morphology, development, behavior, or evolution.

Environment, Development, and Evolution

Toward a Synthesis

Edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson and Gerd B. Müller

ISBN: 9780262083195

Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.

Origination of Organismal Form

Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology

Edited by Gerd B. Müller and Stuart A. Newman

ISBN: 9780262134194

A more comprehensive version of evolutionary theory that focuses as much on the origin of biological form as on its diversification.

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