Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology) - Hardcover

Der Weele, Cor Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791440451 ISBN 13: 9780791440452

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1999

Synopsis

Questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences.

Images of Development questions the dominant biological approach of explaining animal development as entirely genetic by exploring the explanatory value of investigating environmental influences. Van der Weele discusses assumptions, explanatory patterns, and conceptual tools in developmental and evolutionary biology and reviews many concrete examples of environmental influence in animal development. She provides perspectives from biology, philosophy of science, and ethics in an integrative way.

About this title

About the Author

Cor van der Weele is Assistant Professor of Science and Ethics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791440451
• ISBN 13: 9780791440452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182