{"product_id":"evolution-on-purpose-isbn-9780262546409","title":"Evolution \"On Purpose\"","description":"\u003cb\u003eA unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth.  Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In \u003ci\u003eEvolution “On Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e,” edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, some twenty theorists attempt to modify this reductive approach by exploring in depth the different ways in which living systems have themselves shaped the course of evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvolution “On Purpose”\u003c\/i\u003e puts forward a more inclusive theoretical synthesis that goes far beyond the underlying principles and assumptions of the modern synthesis to accommodate work since the 1950s in molecular genetics, developmental biology, epigenetic inheritance, genomics, multilevel selection, niche construction, physiology, behavior, biosemiotics, chemical reaction theory, and other fields. In the view of the authors, active biological processes are responsible for the direction and the rate of evolution. Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way “read-write” genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind.  As this collection compellingly shows, and as bacterial geneticist James Shapiro emphasizes, “The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable.”Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003ePeter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross\u003cbr\u003e2 Teleonomy in Evolution: \"The Ghost in the Machine\" 11\u003cbr\u003ePeter A. Corning\u003cbr\u003e3 Cellular Basis of Cognition in Evolution: From Protists and Fungi Up to Animals, Plants, and Root-Fungal Networks 33\u003cbr\u003eFrantisek Baluska, William B. Miller Jr., and Arthur S. Reber \u003cbr\u003e4 Constructing \"On Purpose\": How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection 59\u003cbr\u003eDominik Deffner\u003cbr\u003e5 Relational Agency: A New Ontology for Coevolving Systems 79\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Heylighen\u003cbr\u003e6 Teleonomic Anticipatory Configurations in Biological Evolution: The Downward Dynamical Nature of Goal-Directedness 105\u003cbr\u003eAbir U. Igamberdiev\u003cbr\u003e7 From Teleonomy to Mentally Driven Goal-Directed Behavior: Evolutionary Considerations 119\u003cbr\u003eEva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg\u003cbr\u003e8 Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm: A Statistical Mechanics of Emergence 141\u003cbr\u003eStuart A. Kauffman and Andrea Roli\u003cbr\u003e9 On the Concept of Meaning in Biology 161\u003cbr\u003eKalevi Kull\u003cbr\u003e10 Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process 175\u003cbr\u003eMichael Levin\u003cbr\u003e11 Form, Function, Agency: Sources of Natural Purpose in Animal Evolution 199\u003cbr\u003eStuart A. Newman\u003cbr\u003e12 How Purposive Agency Became Banned from Evolutionary Biology 221\u003cbr\u003eDenis Noble and Raymond Noble\u003cbr\u003e13 Goal Attributions in Biology: Objective Fact, Anthropomorphic Bias, or Valuable Heuristic? 237\u003cbr\u003eSamir Okasha\u003cbr\u003e14 Toward the Physicalization of Biology: Seeking the Chemical Origin of Cognition 257\u003cbr\u003eRobert Pascal and Addy Pross\u003cbr\u003e15 Evolutionary Change Is Naturally Biological and Purposeful 275\u003cbr\u003eJames A. Shapiro \u003cbr\u003e16 Agency, Teleonomy, Purpose, and Evolutionary Change in Plant Systems 299\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Trewavas \u003cbr\u003e17 Agency, Goal Orientation, and Evolutionary Explanations 325\u003cbr\u003eTobias Uller\u003cbr\u003e18 Evolutionary Foundationalism: The Myth of the Chemical Given 341\u003cbr\u003eDenis M. Walsh\u003cbr\u003eContributors 363\u003cbr\u003eIndex 365Peter A. Corning\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems and Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. He has been a science writer for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and has also authored seven books and more than 200 professional and print media articles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStuart A. Kauffman\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He has published over 350 articles and six books: \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Order\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eAt Home in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvestigations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReinventing the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHumanity in a Creative Universe,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA World beyond Physics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenis Noble\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford until 2004, when he retired and switched his focus to evolutionary biology. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Music of Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDance to the Tune of Life\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames A. Shapiro is Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. He has published pioneering books on mobile genetic elements, natural genetic engineering, bacterial multicellularity, and read-write genome evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard I. Vane-Wright is an entomologist associated with the Natural History Museum (London) for over 60 years. He now divides his time between studies on the history of entomology, butterfly systematics, the theory of evolution, and attitudes to nature and the conservation of biodiversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddy Pross is\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eProfessor of Chemistry (Emeritus) at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests lie in the physics\/chemistry-biology relationship and the origin of life problem. His pioneering book \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology \u003c\/i\u003ehas been published in close to a dozen languages.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300497510629,"sku":"NP9780262546409","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546409.jpg?v=1767726506","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/evolution-on-purpose-isbn-9780262546409","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}