Images of development
Subtitle: environmental causes in ontogeny
By: Cor van der Weele.
Series: SUNY series in philosophy and biology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Ontogeny.; Ecology.; Developmental biology.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.