Dieter Stefan Peters (ed.), Michael Weingarten (ed.)

Organisms, Genes and Evolution

Evolutionary Theory at the Crossroads. Proceedings of the 7th International Senckenberg Conference
Dieter Stefan Peters (ed.), Michael Weingarten (ed.)

Organisms, Genes and Evolution

Evolutionary Theory at the Crossroads. Proceedings of the 7th International Senckenberg Conference

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Peter Janich: Where does biology get its objects from?
Mathias Gutmann: The status of organism: Towards a constructivist theory of organism
Walter Bock: Explanations in a historical science
Christine Hertler: Organism and morphology: Methodological differences between functional and constructional morphology
Dominique G. Homberger: Similarities and differences: The distinctive approaches of systematics and comparative anatomy towards homology and analogy
Raphael Falk: The organism as a necessary entity of evolution
Franz M. Wuketits: The organism’s place in evolution: Darwin’s views and contemporary organismic theories
Christian Kummer: The development of organismic structure and the philosophy behind
Guiseppe Sermonti: The butterfly and the lion
Harald Riedl: Organism – Ecosystem – Biosphere: Some comments on the organismic concept
Sievert Lorenzen: How to advance from the theory of natural selection towards the General Theory of Self-Organization
Antonio Lima-de-Faria: The evolutionary periodicity of flight
Hans-Rainer Duncker: The evolution of avian ontogenies: Determination of molecular evolution by integrated complex functional systems and ecological conditions
Winfried Stefan Peters & Bernd Herkner: An outline of a theory of the constructional constraints governing early organismic evolution
Werner E. G. Müller e.a.: Monophyly of Metazoa: Phylogenetic analyses of genes encoding SerThr-kinases and a receptor Tyr-kinase from Porifera [sponges]
Karl Edlinger: The evolution of the mollusc construction: Living organisms as energy-transforming systems
Michael Gudo: A structural-functional approach to the soft bodies of rugose corals

Series Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main – Schriften
Volume 14
ISBN 978-3-515-07659-3
Media type Book - Hardcover
Edition number 1.
Copyright year 2000
Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
Length 243 pages
Illustrations 51 b/w figs.
Size 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Language English