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Towards a Theory of Development (Paperback)
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Towards a Theory of Development (Paperback)
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Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living
things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly
innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no
systematic, targeted effort has been made to construct a unifying
theory of development. This novel work offers a unique exploration
of the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of
living things should be understood. It explores the key concepts of
developmental biology, asks whether general principles of
development can be discovered, and examines the role of models and
theories. The two editors (one a biologist with long interest in
the theoretical aspects of his discipline, the other a philosopher
of science who has mainly worked on biological systems) have
assembled a team of leading contributors who are representative of
the scientific and philosophical community within which a diversity
of thoughts are growing, and out of which a theory of development
may eventually emerge. They analyse a wealth of approaches to
concepts, models and theories of development, such as gene
regulatory networks, accounts based on systems biology and on
physics of soft matter, the different articulations of evolution
and development, symbiont-induced development, as well as the
widely discussed concepts of positional information and
morphogenetic field, the idea of a 'programme' of development and
its critiques, and the long-standing opposition between
preformationist and epigenetic conceptions of development. Towards
a Theory of Development is primarily aimed at students and
researchers in the fields of 'evo-devo', developmental biology,
theoretical biology, systems biology, biophysics, and the
philosophy of science.
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