Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution

Book Overview

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262650630
• ISBN13: 9780262650632
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher