The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Susan Oyama

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

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