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Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

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

ISBN: 9780262045339

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 24, 2021

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

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning

The Wordbank Project

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

ISBN: 9780262045100

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 16, 2021

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

Blueprint, with a new afterword

Blueprint

How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

by Robert Plomin

ISBN: 9780262537988

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 2, 2019

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

Chimeras and Consciousness

Chimeras and Consciousness

Evolution of the Sensory Self

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

ISBN: 9780262515832

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 22, 2011

Scientists elucidate the astounding collective sensory capacity of Earth and its evolution through time.
From Embryology to Evo-Devo

From Embryology to Evo-Devo

From Embryology to Evo-Devo

A History of Developmental Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein

ISBN: 9780262513340

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 21, 2009

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

Modularity

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

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 21, 2009

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

Integrating Evolution and Development

Integrating Evolution and Development

From Theory to Practice

Edited by Roger Sansom and Robert N. Brandon

ISBN: 9780262693530

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 21, 2007

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

Modeling Biology

Modeling Biology

Structures, Behaviors, Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller

ISBN: 9780262538152

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 7, 2007

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

Environment, Development, and Evolution

Environment, Development, and Evolution

Toward a Synthesis

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

ISBN: 9780262083195

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 24, 2003

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

Origination of Organismal Form

Origination of Organismal Form

Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology

Edited by Gerd B. Müller and Stuart A. Newman

ISBN: 9780262134194

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 3, 2003

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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