Genes and the Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology
What are the agents of life? Central to our conception of the biological world is the idea that it contains various kinds of individuals, including genes, organisms, and species. How we conceive of these agents of life is central to our understanding of the relationship between life and mind, the place of hierarchical thinking in the biological sciences, and pluralistic views of biological agency. Genes and the Agents of Life rethinks the place of the individual in the biological sciences, drawing parallels with the cognitive and social sciences. Genes, organisms, and species are all agents of life, but how are each of these conceptualized wi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-83646-3
- EAN: 9780521836463
- Produktnummer: 1629417
- Verlag: Cambridge
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 544 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 544
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Robert A. Wilson was born in Broken Hill, Australia, and lives in Edmonton, Canada. He is the author or editor of five other books, including the award-winning The MIT Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences (1999) and Boundaries of the Mind (Cambridge, 2004).
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