附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and indexes.
Foreword / Lewontin Richard -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy -- 3 The Problem of Change -- 4 Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation -- 5 Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene -- 6 The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine -- 7 The Ontogeny of Information -- 8 Reprise -- 9 Prospects -- Afterword to Second Edition.
摘要:In this work, the author attempts to complicate certain conventional dichotomies (particularly the nature/nurture split) that she belives impede scientific inquiry and thought about individual development, and to untangle the often subtle assumptions embe.