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The tinkerer's accomplice : how design emerges from life itself / J. Scott Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674044487
  • 0674044487
  • 0674267869
  • 9780674267862
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tinkerer's accomplice.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/2 22
LOC classification:
  • QH375 .T87 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • 2008 C-298
  • QT 120
Online resources:
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Prologue -- 1 Cleanthes� Dilemma -- 2 Bernard Machines -- 3 The Joy of Socks -- 4 Blood River -- 5 Knowledgeable Bones -- 6 Embryonic Origami -- 7 A Gut Feeling -- 8 An Intentional Aside -- 9 Points of Light -- 10 Pygmalion�s Gift -- 11 Biology�s Bright Lines -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index.

Print version record.

CONTENTS -- Prologue -- 1 Cleanthes� Dilemma -- 2 Bernard Machines -- 3 The Joy of Socks -- 4 Blood River -- 5 Knowledgeable Bones -- 6 Embryonic Origami -- 7 A Gut Feeling -- 8 An Intentional Aside -- 9 Points of Light -- 10 Pygmalion�s Gift -- 11 Biology�s Bright Lines -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.

In English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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