{"product_id":"the-individual-in-the-animal-kingdom-isbn-9780262045377","title":"The Individual in the Animal Kingdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Huxley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Individual in the Animal Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1912, is a concise and groundbreaking work that is almost entirely unknown today. In it, Huxley analyzes the evolutionary advances in life’s organizational complexity, anticipating many of today’s ideas about changes in individuality. Huxley’s overarching system of concepts and his coherent logical principles were so far ahead of their time that they remain valid to this day. In part, this is because his explicitly Darwinian approach carefully distinguished between the integrated form and function of hierarchies within organisms and loosely defined, nonorganismal ecological communities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Individual in the Animal Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, we meet a youthful Huxley who uses his commanding knowledge of natural history to develop a nonreductionist account of life’s complexity that aligns with seminal early insights by Darwin, Wallace, Weismann, and Wheeler. As volume editors Richard Gawne and Jacobus Boomsma point out, this work disappeared into oblivion despite its relevance for contemporary research on organismal complexity and major evolutionary transitions. This MIT Press edition gives Huxley’s book a second hearing, offering readers a unique vantage point on the discoveries of evolutionary biology past and present.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword ix\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gawne and Jacobus J. Boomsma\u003cbr\u003eGlossary xli\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gawne and Jacobus J. Boomsma\u003cbr\u003ePreface xlv\u003cbr\u003eJulian S. Huxley\u003cbr\u003eI The Idea of Individuality 1\u003cbr\u003eII The Biological Foundations of Individuality 25\u003cbr\u003eIII Some Other Definitions of Animal Individuality 51\u003cbr\u003eIV The Second Grade of Individuality and Its Attainment 65\u003cbr\u003eV The Later Progress of Individuality 87\u003cbr\u003eVI The Relation of Individuality to Matter; Conclusion 111\u003cbr\u003eLiterature Cited 119\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A 121\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B 123\u003cbr\u003eNotes 127\u003cbr\u003eIndex 133\u003cb\u003eJulian Huxley\u003c\/b\u003e (1887–1975), an English evolutionary biologist, was a prolific author and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century effort to consolidate the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. \u003cb\u003eRichard Gawne\u003c\/b\u003e is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003es\u003c\/u\u003e (MIT Press). \u003cb\u003eJacobus Boomsma\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300248867045,"sku":"NP9780262045377","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045377.jpg?v=1767739928","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-individual-in-the-animal-kingdom-isbn-9780262045377","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}