Genes in development
Subtitle: re-reading the molecular paradigm
By: edited by Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter.
Contributors: Neumann-Held, Eva M.; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, 1959-
Series: Science and cultural theory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Developmental genetics; Developmental Biology -- methods; Growth and Development -- genetics; DNA -- genetics; Evolution; Genetic Determinism; Genetic Processes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genome analysis and developmental biology: the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system / Thomas Bürglin; title: Genes and form: inherency in the evolution of developmental mechanisms / Stuart A. Newman and Gerd B. Müller; title: From genes as determinants to DNA as resource: historical notes on development and genetics / Sahotra Sarkar; title: The origin of species: a structuralist approach / Gerry Webster and Brian C. Goodwin; title: On the problem of molecular versus the organismic approach in biology / Ulrich Wolf; title: Genes, development, and semiosis / Jesper Hoffmeyer; title: The fearless vampire conservator: Phillip Kitcher, genetic determinism, and the informational gene / Paul E. Griffiths; title: Genetics from an evolutionary process perspective / James Griesemer; title: Genes; causes; codes: deciphering DNA's ontological privilege / Eva M. Neumann-Held; title: Boundaries and (constructive) interaction / Susan Oyama; title: Beyond the gene but beneath the skin / Evelyn Fox Keller; title: Poiesis and praxis: two modes of understanding development / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter; title: Developmental emergence, genes, and responsible science / Brian C. Goodwin; title: Nothing like a gene / Jackie Leach Scully.