Name: Comparative Thinking in Biology (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology) (en Inglés)
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Author: Adrian Currie
ISBN: 9781108727495

portada Comparative Thinking in Biology (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology) (en Inglés)

Comparative Thinking in Biology (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Adrian Currie

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108727495

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad

Comparative Thinking in Biology (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology) (en Inglés)

Adrian Currie (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Biologists often study living systems in light of their having evolved, of their being the products of various processes of heredity, adaptation, ancestry, and so on. In their investigations, then, biologists think comparatively: they situate lineages into models of those evolutionary processes, comparing their targets with ancestral relatives and with analogous evolutionary outcomes. This element characterizes this mode of investigation - 'comparative thinking' - and puts it to work in understanding why biological science takes the shape it does. Importantly, comparative thinking is local: what we can do with knowledge of a lineage is limited by the evolutionary processes into which it fits. In light of this analysis, the Element examines the experimental study of animal cognition, and macroevolutionary investigation of the 'shape of life', demonstrating the importance of comparative thinking in understanding both the power and limitations of biological knowledge.