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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.

Table of Contents:
1: Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu: Theories of Development in Biology - Problems and Perspectives 2: Thomas Pradeu: Regenerating Theories in Developmental Biology 3: Alan Love: The Erotetic Organization of Developmental Biology 4: Johannes Jaeger and James Sharpe: On the Concept of Mechanism in Development 5: Davide Vecchi and Isaac Hernández: The Epistemological Resilience of the Concept of Morphogenetic Field 6: Stuart Newman: Physico-genetics of Morphogenesis: The Hybrid Nature of Developmental Mechanisms 7: Giuseppe Fusco, Roberto Carrer and Emanuele Serrelli: The Landscape Metaphor in Development 8: Scott Gilbert and Jonathan Bard: Formalizing Theories of Development: A Fugue on the Orderliness of Change 9: Wallace Arthur: General Theories of Evolution and Inheritance, but not Development? 10: Jean-Jacques Kupiec: Cell Differentiation Is a Stochastic Process Subjected to Natural Selection 11: Michel Morange: From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks: The Progressive Historical Construction of a Genetic Theory of Development and Evolution 12: James Griesemer: Reproduction and Scaffolded Developmental Processes: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective 13: Michel Vervoort: Comparison of Animal and Plant Development: A Right Track to Establish a Theory of Development? 14: Armin P. Moczek: Toward a Theory of Development Through a Theory of Developmental Evolution 15: Alessandro Minelli: Developmental Disparity 16: Lucie Laplane: Identifying Some Theories in Developmental Biology. The Case of the Cancer Stem Cell Theory 17: Spencer V. Nyholm and Margaret McFall-Ngai: Animal Development in a Microbial World 18: Foreword: a biologist's view by Brian K. Hall 19: Foreword: a philosopher's view by Richard M. Burian

About the Author :
Alessandro Minelli was Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy, until his retirement in 2011. Following long years of research in biological systematics and phylogenetics, he later moved the focus of his activity towards evolutionary developmental biology. Founding member and former vice-president of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Minelli is member of the editorial board of Evolution & Development, Theory in Biosciences and Frontiers in Zoology. Thomas Pradeu is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at Paris-Sorbonne University. Trained in both philosophy and biology, he is particularly interested in conceptual and theoretical issues of immunology and developmental biology. His research has been published in scientific and philosophical journals, including Biological Theory, Biology and Philosophy, The Lancet, Nature Reviews Immunology, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA.

Review :
[a] splendid book ... The complementary perspectives of the editors helped to bring together an exceptional team of contributors that includes both biologists and philosophers. ... this book should be required reading for philosophers and biologists interested in development or evolutionary developmental biology This is a very welcome volume that raises, and addresses, a number of important questions about how we understand development ... and is worth reading carefully. It raises questions that deserve further consideration, and should stimulate further discussion that will enrich developmental biology, philosophy of science, and will benefit from conversation with history of science as well This book will be essential reading for readers wanting a rich introduction to current broad issues in developmental biology and evo-devo, for philosophers of science in general, and for biologists at large. Exceptional for an edited volume, each chapter in Towards a Theory of Development is deeply thoughtful, provoking reflection on some of the most important ideas in current biology. I can think of no higher recommendation Towards a Theory of Development gathers essays by biologists and philosophers, which display a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The discussions not only cover the state of art, but broaden our vision of what development includes and provide pointers for future research...highly recommended reading for everyone interested in developmental biology.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199671434
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 190 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199671435
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 662 gr


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