Towards a theory of development /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Minelli, Alessandro (Editor), Pradeu, Thomas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Theories of development in biology : problems and perspectives / Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu
  • Regenerating theories in developmental biology / Thomas Pradeu
  • The erotetic organization of developmental biology / Alan C. Love
  • On the concept of mechanism in development / Johannes Jaeger and James Sharpe
  • The epistemological resilience of the concept of morphogenetic field / Davide Vecchi and Isaac Hernández
  • Physico-genetics of morphogenesis : the hybrid nature of developmental mechanisms / Stuart A. Newman
  • The landscape metaphor in development / Giuseppe Fusco, Roberto Carrer, and Emanuele Serrelli
  • Formalizing theories of development : a fugue on the orderliness of change / Scott F. Gilbert and Jonathan Bard
  • General theories of evolution and inheritance, but not development? / Wallace Arthur
  • Cell differentiation is a stochastic process subjected to natural selection / Jean-Jacques Kupiec
  • From genes to gene regulatory networks : the progressive historical construction of a genetic theory of development and evolution / Michel Morange
  • Reproduction and scaffolded developmental processes : an integrated evolutionary perspective / James Griesemer
  • Comparison of animal and plant development : a right track to establish a theory of development? / Michel Vervoort
  • Towards a theory of development through a theory of developmental evolution / Armin P. Moczek
  • Developmental disparity / Alessandro Minelli
  • Identifying some theories in developmental biology : the case of the cancer stem cell theory / Lucie Laplane
  • Animal development in a microbial world / Spencer V. Nyholm and Margaret J. McFall-Ngai.