M. Nijhoff ; Hingham, MA : [distributor] for the United States and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1986
SERIES
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Science and philosophy.
GENERAL NOTES
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Revisions of papers presented at a conference held at Georgia State University, May 1984, sponsored by the US National Endowment for the Humanities.Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Nature of Scientific Integration.- I: The Coming Together of Biochemistry.- Intermediary Metabolism in the Early Twentieth Century.- Biochemistry: A Cross-Disciplinary Endeavor That Discovered A Distinctive Domain.- Editor's Commentary.- II: Dobzhansky's Contribution to the Evolutionary Synthesis.- Relations Among Fields in the Evolutionary Synthesis.- The Synthesis and the Synthetic Theory.- Editor's Commentary.- III: Incorporating Developmental Biology into The Evolutionary Synthesis.- Can Embryologists Contribute to an Understandin gof Evolutionary Mechanisms?.- A Framework to Think About Evolving Genetic Regulatory Systems.- Developmental Constraints, Generative Entrenchment, and the Innate-Acquired Distinction.- On Integrating the Study of Evolution and of Development.- Editor's Commentary.- IV: Extending Cognitive Science.- The Evolution of Communicative Capacities.- Language, Thought, and Communication.- Editor's Commentary.- V: Infusing Cognitive Approaches into Animal Ethology.- Behavior Implies Cognition.- Intelligence: From Genes to Genius in the Quest for Control.- Cognitive Explanations and Cognitive Ethology.- Editor's Commentary.