Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology - Couverture rigide

Markos, Anton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195149483 ISBN 13 : 9780195149487

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The "egg-and-hen" engima - how the genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text, and tuning the performance to the environment. A. Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume living beings as endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her/his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes up living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA. This interpretation is based on the experience of the cell (cell lineage, species), and negotiated with present environmental cues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195149483
• ISBN 13: 9780195149487
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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