Entangled Life Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences / [electronic resource] :
edited by Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce.
- Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2014.
- 1 online resource (VI, 279 p. 15 ill.)
- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 4 2211-1948 ; .
Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life; Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction; Trevor Pearce -- James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the American "Immigrant Crisis" at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Christopher D. Green -- The Tension between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological; Harry Heft -- New Perspectives on Organism-Environment Interaction in Anthropology; Emily A. Schultz -- Part II. Contested Models -- Adaptation, Adaptation to, and Interactive Causes; Bruce Glymour -- Environmental Grain, Organism Fitness, and Type Fitness; Marshall Abrams -- Models in Context: Biological and Epistemological Niches; Jessica A. Bolker -- Thinking Outside the Mouse: Organism-Environment Interaction and Human Immunology; Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker, and Joaquin Madrenas -- Part III. Emerging Frameworks -- Integrating Ecology and Evolution: Niche Construction and Ecological Engineering; Gillian Barker and John Odling-Smee -- The Affordance Landscape: The Spatial Metaphors of Evolution; Denis M. Walsh -- Rethinking Behavioral Evolution; Rachael Brown. Constructing the Cooperative Niche; Kim Sterelny.
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Philosophy. History. Biology--Philosophy. Evolutionary biology.