The life organic the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2016]
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991011422609108016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The first generation of organicists
- Needham's revival of mechanism
- Socrates and the principia biolog?
- The tipping point
- Waddington and the organizer
- The original Theoretical Biology Club
- Large plans versus the ultimate littleness of things
- As many opinions as there are men
- "Off in all directions like an expanding universe"
- Mechanism reduced to molecules
- The Lysenko morality tale and the epigenetic landscape
- Ernst Mayr, neo-Darwinism, and beanbag genetics
- History of science is written by the laureates
- The 1960s reincarnation of the debate
- The conventional wisdom of the dominant group, or cowdung
- Conclusion : a third way after Waddington?
- Epilogue : is modern epigenetics organic?.
