Genetics and the Logic of Evolution

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A PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
Our aim in this book is to develop some general principles to help describe the patterns to be found in the seemingly disparate facts about the diversity of life on Earth. It is an effort to assemble and digest observations made by naturalists and biologists from Aristotle to scientists publishing today—of organisms that live at temperatures above the boiling point of water and others that live in ice, organisms that ﬂy and others that swim, those that inhale oxygen and those that expel it; how they are different and what they share. How can evolution, the single phenomenon that we invoke to explain how this endless diversity arose from one beginning, have produced it all?
Modern biological theory is thoroughly gene-centered, and this book is no exception. Genes are considered the essential storehouses of biological information and the mechanism through which evolution works. Thus, our speciﬁc interest in this book is in explaining the role of nucleic acids—DNA and RNA—in the evolution
of complex organisms.At the same time, there is a danger in attributing too much to one cause, genetic or otherwise, or to one evolutionary process, or in considering the issues in such a detailed and itemized way that the broader picture gets lost. In this book we explore the ways in which an overly gene-based approach to biology can constrain our understanding of evolution.
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In this book the authors draw on what is known, largely from recent research, about the nature of genes and cells, the genetics of development and animal and plant body plans, intra- and interorganismal communication, sensation and perception, to propose that a few basic generalizations, along with the modified application of the classical evolutionary theory, can provide a broader theoretical understanding of genes, evolution, and the diverse and complex nature of living organisms.
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Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Liss; 1 edition (January 23, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471238058
ISBN-13: 978-0471238058
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches

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