The Tinkerer's Accomplice : : How Design Emerges from Life Itself / / J. Scott Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Turner, J. Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. Cleanthes' Dilemma --; 2. Bernard Machines --; 3. The Joy of Socks --; 4. Blood River --; 5. Knowledgeable Bones --; 6. Embryonic Origami --; 7. A Gut Feeling --; 8. An Intentional Aside --; 9. Points of Light --; 10. Pygmalion's Gift --; 11. Biology's Bright Lines --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674044487; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674044487
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J. Scott Turner.

Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.