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Properties of Life
Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology
ISBN: 9780262546201
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
A coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms.
Evolution "On Purpose"
Teleonomy in Living Systems
ISBN: 9780262546409
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science.
Evolvability
A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
ISBN: 9780262545624
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.
Rethinking Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780262546744
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
ISBN: 9780262545853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 7, 2022
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
ISBN: 9780262543200
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 22, 2022
Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution.
Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
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.
Rethinking Cancer
A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era
ISBN: 9780262045216
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 27, 2021
Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research, proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical evidence.
How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life
The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells
ISBN: 9780262045575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 9, 2021
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.
Contingency and Convergence
Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
ISBN: 9780262043397
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2020
Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere?
Convergent Evolution on Earth
Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
ISBN: 9780262042734
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2019
An analysis of patterns of convergent evolution on Earth that suggests where we might look for similar convergent forms on other planets.
Evolutionary Causation
Biological and Philosophical Reflections
ISBN: 9780262039925
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 3, 2019
A comprehensive treatment of the concept of causation in evolutionary biology that makes clear its central role in both historical and contemporary debates.
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology
ISBN: 9780262037839
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2018
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780262036856
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 12, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Vivarium
Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
ISBN: 9780262036702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2017
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.
Transformations of Lamarckism
From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
ISBN: 9780262527507
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 2015
A reappraisal of Lamarckism—its historical impact and contemporary significance.
Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
ISBN: 9780262019552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
From Groups to Individuals
Evolution and Emerging Individuality
ISBN: 9780262018722
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 22, 2013
The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings.
Convergent Evolution
Limited Forms Most Beautiful
ISBN: 9780262539098
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2011
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
ISBN: 9780262015240
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2011
Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.
Innovation in Cultural Systems
Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
ISBN: 9780262013338
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 23, 2009
Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture.
Biological Emergences
Evolution by Natural Experiment
ISBN: 9780262513401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.
Modularity
Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
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.
Cognitive Biology
Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262012935
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 29, 2009
An overview of current research at the intersection of psychology and biology, integrating evolutionary and developmental data and explanations.
Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds
Comparative Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780262113212
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 2009
Investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility
Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication
ISBN: 9780262538770
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2008
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.
Modeling Biology
Structures, Behaviors, Evolution
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.
Compositional Evolution
The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution
ISBN: 9780262538091
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 6, 2006
A study of evolutionary processes that involve the combination of systems of semi-independently preadapted genetic material rather than the linear or sequential accumulation of slight modifications; with computational models that illustrate these mechanisms.
Evolution of Communication Systems
A Comparative Approach
ISBN: 9780262151115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2004
Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling.
Environment, Development, and Evolution
Toward a Synthesis
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
Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology
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.
The Evolution of Cognition
ISBN: 9780262526968
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 2000
This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a debate about how evolutionary processes have shaped cognition.

Properties of Life
Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology
ISBN: 9780262546201
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Evolution "On Purpose"
Teleonomy in Living Systems
ISBN: 9780262546409
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
Evolvability
A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
ISBN: 9780262545624
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Rethinking Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780262546744
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
ISBN: 9780262545853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 7, 2022
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
ISBN: 9780262543200
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 22, 2022
Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045339
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
Rethinking Cancer
A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era
ISBN: 9780262045216
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 27, 2021
How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life
The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells
ISBN: 9780262045575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 9, 2021
Contingency and Convergence
Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
ISBN: 9780262043397
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2020
Convergent Evolution on Earth
Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
ISBN: 9780262042734
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2019
Evolutionary Causation
Biological and Philosophical Reflections
ISBN: 9780262039925
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 3, 2019
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology
ISBN: 9780262037839
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2018
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780262036856
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 12, 2018
Vivarium
Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
ISBN: 9780262036702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2017
Transformations of Lamarckism
From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
ISBN: 9780262527507
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 2015
Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
ISBN: 9780262019552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2013
From Groups to Individuals
Evolution and Emerging Individuality
ISBN: 9780262018722
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 22, 2013
Convergent Evolution
Limited Forms Most Beautiful
ISBN: 9780262539098
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2011
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
ISBN: 9780262015240
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2011
Innovation in Cultural Systems
Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
ISBN: 9780262013338
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 23, 2009
Biological Emergences
Evolution by Natural Experiment
ISBN: 9780262513401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
Modularity
Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
ISBN: 9780262513265
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
Cognitive Biology
Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior
ISBN: 9780262012935
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 29, 2009
Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds
Comparative Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780262113212
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 2009
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility
Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication
ISBN: 9780262538770
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2008
Modeling Biology
Structures, Behaviors, Evolution
ISBN: 9780262538152
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2007
Compositional Evolution
The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution
ISBN: 9780262538091
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 6, 2006
Evolution of Communication Systems
A Comparative Approach
ISBN: 9780262151115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2004
Environment, Development, and Evolution
Toward a Synthesis
ISBN: 9780262083195
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2003
Origination of Organismal Form
Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology
ISBN: 9780262134194
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 3, 2003
The Evolution of Cognition
ISBN: 9780262526968
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 2000