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Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) by Oyama, Susan.; Griffiths, Paul E.; Gray, Russell D. is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DS
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Oyama, Susan.; Griffiths, Paul E.; Gray, Russell D.
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262650632
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Nature, Biology, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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