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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.1996

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Simon + Schuster LLC

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586

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15,6/23,3/4,3 cm

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748 g

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Englisch

ISBN

978-0-684-82471-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.1996

Abbildungen

mit Illustrationen

Verlag

Simon + Schuster LLC

Seitenzahl

586

Maße (L/B/H)

15,6/23,3/4,3 cm

Gewicht

748 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-684-82471-0

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Darwin's Dangerous Idea

  • Contents

    Preface

    Part I: Starting in the Middle

    CHAPTER ONE

    Tell Me Why

    1. Is Nothing Sacred?

    2. What, Where, When, Why -- and How?

    3. Locke's "Proof" of the Primacy of Mind

    4. Hume's Close Encounter

    CHAPTER TWO

    An Idea Is Born

    1. What Is So Special About Species?

    2. Natural Selection -- an Awful Stretcher

    3. Did Darwin Explain the Origin of Species?

    4. Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process

    5. Processes as Algorithms

    CHAPTER THREE

    Universal Acid

    1. Early Reactions

    2. Darwin's Assault on the Cosmic Pyramid

    3. The Principle of the Accumulation of Design

    4. The Tools for R and D: Skyhooks or Cranes?

    5. Who's Afraid of Reductionism?

    CHAPTER FOUR

    The Tree of Life

    1. How Should We Visualize the Tree of Life?

    2. Color-coding a Species on the Tree

    3. Retrospective Coronations: Mitochondrial Eve and Invisible Beginnings

    4. Patterns, Oversimplification, and Explanation

    CHAPTER FIVE

    The Possible and the Actual

    1. Grades of Possibility?

    2. The Library of Mendel

    3. The Complex Relation Between Genome and Organism

    4. Possibility Naturalized

    CHAPTER SIX

    Threads of Actuality in Design Space

    1. Drifting and Lifting Through Design Space

    2. Forced Moves in the Game of Design

    3. The Unity of Design Space

    Part II: Darwinian Thinking in Biology

    CHAPTER SEVEN

    Priming Darwin' s Pump

    1. Back Beyond Darwin's Frontier

    2. Molecular Evolution

    3. The Laws of the Game of Life

    4. Eternal Recurrence -- Life Without Foundations?

    CHAPTER EIGHT

    Biology Is Engineering

    1. The Sciences of the Artificial

    2. Darwin Is Dead -- Long Live Darwin!

    3. Function and Specification

    4. Original Sin and the Birth of Meaning

    5. The Computer That Learned to Play Checkers

    6. Artifact Hermeneutics, or Reverse Engineering

    7. Stuart Kauffman as Meta-Engineer

    CHAPTER NINE

    Searching for Quality

    1. The Power of Adaptationist Thinking

    2. The Leibnizian Paradigm

    3. Playing with Constraints

    CHAPTER TEN

    Bully for Brontosaurus

    1. The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

    2. The Spandrel's Thumb

    3. Punctuated Equilibrium: A Hopeful Monster

    4. Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Burgess Shale Double-Play Mystery

    CHAPTER ELEVEN

    Controversies Contained

    1. A Clutch of Harmless Heresies

    2. Three Losers: Teilhard, Lamarck, and Directed Mutation

    3. Cui Bono?

    Part III: Mind, Meaning, Mathematics, and Morality

    CHAPTER TWELVE

    The Cranes of Culture

    1. The Monkey's Uncle Meets the Meme

    2. Invasion of the Body-Snatchers

    3. Could There Be a Science of Memetics?

    4. The Philosophical Importance of Memes

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN

    Losing Out Minds to Darwin

    1. The Role of Language in Intelligence

    2. Chomsky Contra Darwin: Four Episodes

    3. Nice Tries

    CHAPTER FOURTEEN

    The Evolution of Meanings

    1. The Quest for Real Meaning

    2. Two Black Boxes

    3. Blocking the Exits

    4. Safe Passage to the Future

    CHAPTER FIFTEEN

    The Emperor's New Mind, and Other Fables

    1. The Sword in the Stone

    2. The Library of Toshiba

    3. The Phantom Quantum-Gravity Computer: Lessons from Lapland

    CHAPTER SIXTEEN

    On the Origin of Morality

    1. E Pluribus Unum?

    2. Friedrich Nietzsche's Just So Stories

    3. Some Varieties of Greedy Ethical Reductionism

    4. Sociobiology: Good and Bad, Good and Evil

    CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

    Redesigning Morality

    1. Can Ethics Be Naturalized?

    2. Judging the Competition

    3. The Moral First Aid Manual

    CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

    The Future of an Idea

    1. In Praise of Biodiversity

    2. Universal Acid: Handle with Care

    Appendix

    Bibliography

    Index