How the Leopard Changed Its Spots

How the Leopard Changed Its Spots
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691217802
ISBN-13 : 0691217807
Rating : 4/5 (807 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How the Leopard Changed Its Spots by : Brian Goodwin

Download or read book How the Leopard Changed Its Spots written by Brian Goodwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive systems. In a new preface for this edition, Goodwin reflects on the advances in both genetics and the sciences of complexity since the book's original publication.


How the Leopard Changed Its Spots Related Books

How the Leopard Changed Its Spots
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Brian Goodwin
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful interve
A Leopard Can’t Change Its Spots
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: Robin P. Currie
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-30 - Publisher: Archway Publishing

GET EBOOK

Lies are everywhere, but we can see the truth if we try really hard. Following up on the success of her first philosophical book, Pray without Ceasing, Robin P.
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Kristopher Jansma
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voi
How the Leopard Got His Spots
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Rudyard Kipling
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09 - Publisher: ABDO

GET EBOOK

Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.
Changing a Leopard's Spots
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Alex van den Heever
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-01 - Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa

GET EBOOK

‘Alex and Renias are what we need in these times of racial mistrust and lack of cohesion. I found this book compelling and “unputdownable” as it goes beyo