Modularity
Subtitle: understanding the development and evolution of natural complex systems
By: edited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman ; foreword by Herbert A. Simon
Series: The Vienna series in theoretical biology; Vienna series in theoretical biology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780262269698; 9781423729914
Subjects: Natural selection; Life Sciences; Evolution; Chaotic behavior in systems; SCIENCE; Evolution (Biology); Modularity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword / Herbert A. Simon; title: I. Introduction; title: The Ubiquity of Modularity / Werner Callebaut; title: II. Evo-Devo : The Making of a Modular World; title: Natural Selection and the Origin of Modules / Gu nter P. Wagner, Jason Mezey, and Raffaele Calabretta; title: Evolutionary Modules : Conceptual Analyses and Empirical Hypotheses / Robert N. Brandon; title: Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meets Levels of Selection : Modular Integration or Competition, or Both? / Rasmus G. Winther; title: Modularity in Evolution : Some Low-Level Questions / Lee Altenberg; title: Evolutionary Lock-In and the Origin of Modularity in RNA Structure / Lauren Ancel Meyers and Walter Fontana; title: Amphibian Variations : The Role of Modules in Mosaic Evolution / Gerhard Schlosser; title: III. Evo-Patterns : Working Toward a Grammar of Forms; title: The Remodularization of the Organism / Daniel W. McShea and Carl Anderson; title: Modularity : Jumping Forms within Morphospace / Diego Rasskin-Gutman; title: Morphological Modularity and Macroevolution : Conceptual and Empirical Aspects / Gunther J. Eble; title: Hierarchical Integration of Modular Structures in the Evolution of Animal Skeletons / Roger D.K. Thomas; title: Modularity in Art / Slavik V. Jablan; title: Modularity at the Boundary Between Art and Science / Angela D. Buscalioni ... [et al.]; title: IV. Modularity of Mind And Culture; title: Evolutionary Connectionism and Mind/Brain Modularity / Raffaele Calabretta and Domenico Parisi; title: Modularity and Chunking / Fernand Gobet; title: Modularity of Cognitive Organization : Why It Is so Appealing and Why It Is Wrong / Boris M. Velichkovsky; title: Decomposability and Modularity of Economic Interactions / Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali, and Marco Valente; title: The Natural Logic of Communicative Possibilities : Modularity and Presupposition / D. Kimbrough Oller.