Evolution "On Purpose" (Teleonomy in Living Systems)

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A unique exploration of teleonomyā€”also known as ā€œevolved purposivenessā€ā€”as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science.

The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed ā€œteleonomyā€ by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth.Ā  Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In Evolution ā€œOn Purpose,ā€ edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, some twenty theorists attempt to modify this reductive approach by exploring in depth the different ways in which living systems have themselves shaped the course of evolution.
Evolution ā€œOn Purposeā€ puts forward a more inclusive theoretical synthesis that goes far beyond the underlying principles and assumptions of the modern synthesis to accommodate work since the 1950s in molecular genetics, developmental biology, epigenetic inheritance, genomics, multilevel selection, niche construction, physiology, behavior, biosemiotics, chemical reaction theory, and other fields. In the view of the authors, active biological processes are responsible for the direction and the rate of evolution. Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way ā€œread-writeā€ genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind.Ā  As this collection compellingly shows, and as bacterial geneticist James Shapiro emphasizes, ā€œThe capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable.ā€

This book title, Evolution "On Purpose" (Teleonomy in Living Systems), ISBN: 9780262546409, by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, published by MIT Press (August 22, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright
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390
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MIT Press (August 22, 2023)
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English
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9780262546409
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