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Evolution's Eye

A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide

Autor: Susan Oyama

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Editura: Duke University Press

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In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems t...

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Autor

Susan Oyama

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2000

Pagini

288

EAN

9780822324362

ISBN

0822324369

Enbook ID

04937189

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

705

Dimensiuni

156 x 235 x 32

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In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behaviour cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution's Eye Oyama elaborates on her pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology. Her approach profoundly alters our understanding of the biological processes of development and evolution and the interrelationships between them. While acknowledging that, in an uncertain world, it is easy to blame it on the genes," Oyama claims that the renewed trend toward genetic determinism colours the way we think about everything from human evolution to sexual orientation and personal responsibility. She presents instead a view that focuses on how a wide variety of developmental factors interact in the multileveled developmental systems that give rise to organisms. Shifting attention away from genes and the environment as causes for behaviour, she convincingly shows the benefits that come from thinking about life processes in terms of developmental systems that produce, sustain, and change living beings over both developmental and evolutionary time. Providing a genuine alternative to genetic and environmental determinism, as well as to unsuccessful compromises with which others have tried to replace them, Evolution's Eye will fascinate students and scholars who work in the fields of evolution, psychology, human biology, and philosophy of science. Feminists and others who seek a more complex view of human nature will find her work especially congenial.