How the Leopard Changed Its Spots : : The Evolution of Complexity / / Brian Goodwin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Goodwin, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Science Library ; 113
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE TO THE PRINCENTON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Organisms? --; CHAPTER 2 How the Leopard Got Its Spots --; CHAPTER 3 Life, the Excitable Medium --; CHAPTER 4 Living Form in the Making --; CHAPTER 5 The Evolution of Generic Forms --; CHAPTER 6 New Directions, New Metaphors --; CHAPTER 7 A Science of Qualities --; REFERENCES --; FURTHER READING --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691217802; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691217802?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian Goodwin.

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.