End of Final Causes in Biology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-01
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor149
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031140167

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Dr. Lucas John Mix is the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and an associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He studies life concepts at the intersection of science, philosophy and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 25 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life.His previous books include Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (2009) and Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018).