Integrating Scientific Disciplines Case Studies from the Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary research has been a popular idea with many people in the last 20 years. Academic administrators have admonished their faculty to become more interdisciplinary. Students often request the chance to pursue an interdisciplinary degree. While the issue of managing interdisciplinary pro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
| Series: | Science and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Nature of Scientific Integration
- I: The Coming Together of Biochemistry
- Intermediary Metabolism in the Early Twentieth Century
- Biochemistry: A Cross-Disciplinary Endeavor That Discovered A Distinctive Domain
- Editor’s Commentary
- II: Dobzhansky’s Contribution to the Evolutionary Synthesis
- Relations Among Fields in the Evolutionary Synthesis
- The Synthesis and the Synthetic Theory
- Editor’s Commentary
- III: Incorporating Developmental Biology into The Evolutionary Synthesis
- Can Embryologists Contribute to an Understandin gof Evolutionary Mechanisms?
- A Framework to Think About Evolving Genetic Regulatory Systems
- Developmental Constraints, Generative Entrenchment, and the Innate-Acquired Distinction
- On Integrating the Study of Evolution and of Development
- Editor’s Commentary
- IV: Extending Cognitive Science
- The Evolution of Communicative Capacities
- Language, Thought, and Communication
- Editor’s Commentary
- V: Infusing Cognitive Approaches into Animal Ethology
- Behavior Implies Cognition
- Intelligence: From Genes to Genius in the Quest for Control
- Cognitive Explanations and Cognitive Ethology
- Editor’s Commentary