Project
A new evolutionary perspective on the nature of the individual
A book entitled Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy(with Columbia University Press) will be completed and published.
Publication
The Major Metaphors of Evolution: Darwinism Then and Now
Agosta, Salvatore J and Daniel R. Brooks. 2020. The Major Metaphors of Evolution: Darwinism Then and Now. Springer. https://www.springer.com...
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Beyond Networks: an Organismic Systems Biology for the 21st Century
Biology is the science of life.
Publication
Sketch for a Theory of Evolution Based on Coding
Joachim De Beule. 2014. Sketch for a Theory of Evolution Based on Coding. Biosemiotics, 7 (2), 181-201
Project
Complexity and the Shift in Modern Science
Science has shifted in the last 120 years from a grounding in the Enlightenment ideas of formalism, determinacy, rationality, and stasis; to a new grounding in organicism, indeterminacy, contingent behavior, and evolutionary openness.
Project
From one to many: parallels between the origins of multicellularity and social behaviour
When a unit of description makes way for a second unit that consists of many members of the first, the notion of individuality, which initially referred to the ‘one’, now refers to the ‘many’.
Project
The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine
Philosophers tend to explain the success of the scientific enterprise in terms of a so-called scientific method believed to be typical of physics and chemistry.
