Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems by James A. Shapiro, Stuart A. Kauffman, Peter A. Corning, Denis Noble, Richard I. Vane-Wright

Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems

James A. Shapiro, Stuart A. Kauffman, Peter A. Corning, Denis Noble, Richard I. Vane-Wright

390 pages missing pub info (editions)

medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth. Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back ...

Read more

Community reviews

This book doesn't have any reviews or ratings yet!

If you've read it, mark it as 'read' and add a review to help others in the StoryGraph community figure out if it might be a book for them!

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.