On the Origin of Autonomy - Bernd Rosslenbroich
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This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major transitions in evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. They include questions about the origin of evolutionary innovation, their genetic and epigenetic background, the role of the phenotype and of changes in ontogenetic pathways. In the present book, it is argued that it is likewise necessary to question the properties of these innovations and what was qualitatively generated during the macroevolutionary transitions. The author states that a recurring central aspect of macroevolutionary innovations is an increase in individual organismal autonomy whereby it is emancipated from the environment with changes in its capacity for flexibility, self-regulation and self-control of behavior. The first chapters define the concept of autonomy and examine its history and its epistemological context. Later chapters demonstrate how changes in autonomy took place durin...
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2014. xii, 297 pp. Original boards. Only very few underlinings with pencil and a signature on the first free endpaper, else as new. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences volume 5. Pictures on request. [Auteur: ROSSLENBROICH, Bernd] [Pagina's: 297] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Springer] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: On the Origin of Autonomy: A New Look at the Major Transitions in Evolution]
