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Entangled life [electronic resource] : organism and environment in the biological and social sciences / edited by Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce.

Barker, Gillian, editor of compilation. author.; Desjardins, Eric. editor of compilation. author.; Pearce, Trevor. editor of compilation.
2013
QH331
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Title
Entangled life [electronic resource] : organism and environment in the biological and social sciences / edited by Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce.
ISBN
9789400770676 electronic book
9400770677 electronic book
9789400770669
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 279 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6 doi
Call Number
QH331
Dewey Decimal Classification
570.1
Summary
This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this entanglement is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a range of new perspectives, methods, and frameworks for examining and understanding the ways that organisms and environments interact. The volume is organized into three main sections: historical perspectives, contested models, and emerging frameworks. The first section explores the origins of the modern idea of organism-environment interaction in the mid-nineteenth century and its development by later psychologists and anthropologists. In the second section, a variety of controversial models from mathematical representations of evolution to model organisms in medical research are discussed and reframed in light of recent questions about the interplay between organisms and environment. The third section investigates several new ideas that have the potential to reshape key aspects of the biological and social sciences. Populations of organisms evolve in response to changing environments; bodies and minds depend on a wide array of circumstances for their development; cultures create complex relationships with the natural world even as they alter it irrevocably. The chapters in this volume share a commitment to unraveling the mysteries of this entangled life.
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Barker, Gillian, editor of compilation. author.
Desjardins, Eric. editor of compilation. author.
Pearce, Trevor. editor of compilation.
Series
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; v.4.
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Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life; Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce
Part I. Historical Perspectives
The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction; Trevor Pearce
James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the American Immigrant Crisis at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Christopher D. Green
The Tension between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological; Harry Heft
New Perspectives on Organism-Environment Interaction in Anthropology; Emily A. Schultz
Part II. Contested Models
Adaptation, Adaptation to, and Interactive Causes; Bruce Glymour
Environmental Grain, Organism Fitness, and Type Fitness; Marshall Abrams
Models in Context: Biological and Epistemological Niches; Jessica A. Bolker
Thinking Outside the Mouse: Organism-Environment Interaction and Human Immunology; Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker, and Joaquin Madrenas
Part III. Emerging Frameworks
Integrating Ecology and Evolution: Niche Construction and Ecological Engineering; Gillian Barker and John Odling-Smee
The Affordance Landscape: The Spatial Metaphors of Evolution; Denis M. Walsh
Rethinking Behavioral Evolution; Rachael Brown. Constructing the Cooperative Niche; Kim Sterelny.

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