From Gaia to Selfish Genes
Subtitle: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences
By: edited by Connie Barlow.
Contributors: Barlow, Connie C.
Edition: 1st MIT Press paperback ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy.; Biology -- Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is Earth itself alive? : Mother Earth : myth or science? / James Lovelock and Lawrence E. Joseph; title: The Search for Gaia / Richard Monastersky, Francesca Lyman, and W. Ford Doolittle; title: Philosophical musings / Lewis Thomas, Gary Snyder, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, and James Lovelock; title: Merged beings : Lynn Margulis : vindicated heretic / Jeanne McDermott; title: Microcosmos / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; title: Blurred bounds of individuality / Julian Huxley and Lio W. Buss; title: A Systems view of life : Holons and hierarchy theroy / Arthur Koestler; title: Birth of general systems theory / Gerald Weinberg and Ludwig von Bertalanffy; title: Game Theory and the Evolution of Cooperation : The Prisoner's delemma / Robert Axelrod and Douglas Hofstadter; title: Game theory and biology / Robert Axelrod with William D. Hamilton; title: Nature, Nuture, and Sciobiology : From ants to anthropology : E.O. Wilson / Robert Wright; title: Introducing a new science / Edward O. Wilson and Richard D. Alexander; title: Not in our genes / Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, Philip Kitcher, Ashley Montagu; title: Selfish genes : Nature red in tooth and claw ; Evolution of consciousness / Richard Dawkins; title: Junk DNA and other evidence / W. Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza; Leslie Orgel and Francis Crick; and David Hull; title: Reflections : The Debates continue / W. Ford Doolittle, Lynn Margulis, John Maynard Smith, Dorion Sagan, Edward O. Wilson, and Robert Wright.