Structuralism and Form in Literature and Biology

Peter McMahon studied biology at Sussex University and completed a PhD at La Trobe University.  Based there and later at the University of Sydney he coordinated Australian-funded research in Indonesia on soil management, on-farm genotype selection and community development based on ‘One Health’ principles. He has published papers on cocoa pests and diseases and participatory approaches to smallholder livelihoods, and co-authored a book on sustainable approaches to cocoa production.

• 1:Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering.- 2: The Debate: Cuvier and Geoffroy.- 3: Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory.- 4: Adaptationism and the Author.- 5: The Relational Turn.- 6: Prague Structuralism and the Poetic Function.- 7: Immanent Evolution.- 8: Phenotype then Gene.- 9: The Interpreting Organism.- 10: An Ecological Context.