Organisms, Genes and Evolution

Evolutionary Theory at the Crossroads. Proceedings of the 7th International Senckenberg Conference

243 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Aus dem Inhalt: Peter Janich: Where does biology get its objects from?Mathias Gutmann: The status of organism: Towards a constructivist theory of organismWalter Bock: Explanations in a historical scienceChristine Hertler: Organism and morphology: Methodological differences between functional and constructional morphologyDominique G. Homberger: Similarities and differences: The distinctive approaches of systematics and comparative anatomy towards homology and analogyRaphael Falk: The organism as a necessary entity of evolutionFranz M. Wuketits: The organism’s place in evolution: Darwin’s views and contemporary organismic theories Christian Kummer: The development of organismic structure and the philosophy behindGuiseppe Sermonti: The butterfly and the lionHarald Riedl: Organism – Ecosystem – Biosphere: Some comments on the organismic conceptSievert Lorenzen: How to advance from the theory of natural selection towards the General Theory of Self-OrganizationAntonio Lima-de-Faria: The evolutionary periodicity of flightHans-Rainer Duncker: The evolution of avian ontogenies: Determination of molecular evolution by integrated complex functional systems and ecological conditions Winfried Stefan Peters & Bernd Herkner: An outline of a theory of the constructional constraints governing early organismic evolutionWerner E. G. Müller e.a.: Monophyly of Metazoa: Phylogenetic analyses of genes encoding SerThr-kinases and a receptor Tyr-kinase from Porifera [sponges]Karl Edlinger: The evolution of the mollusc construction: Living organisms as energy-transforming systems Michael Gudo: A structural-functional approach to the soft bodies of rugose corals

• Reihe: Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main / Geisteswissenschaftliche Reihe
• Themen: Lexika Interdisziplinäre Studien
• ISBN: 9783515076593
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2000
• Größe: 24 x 17 cm
• Verlag: Franz Steiner Verlag
• Herausgegeben von: Dieter Stefan Peters, Michael Weingarten