Title
The Tinkerer's Accomplice : How Design Emerges from Life Itself / J. Scott Turner.
ISBN
9780674044487
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (304 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674044487 doi
Call Number
QH375 .T87 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
576.8/2
Summary
Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.
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System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
1. Cleanthes' Dilemma
2. Bernard Machines
3. The Joy of Socks
4. Blood River
5. Knowledgeable Bones
6. Embryonic Origami
7. A Gut Feeling
8. An Intentional Aside
9. Points of Light
10. Pygmalion's Gift
11. Biology's Bright Lines
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index