作者: Saul A. Newman

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual developme …

A reappraisal of Lamarckism-its historical impact and contemporary significance.In 1809-the year of Charles Darwin’s birth-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Philosophie zoologique, the first comprehens …

Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution."Scaffoldi …

Prominent evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey recent work that expands the core theoretical framework underlying the biological sciences.In the six decades since the publicatio …

Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.The evolut …