Condition Notes: A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9�" x 6�" (0.8 kg); pp (xiv) 233; Index; Contains: Further reading list; Black & white photographs; Graphs; Colour photographs; Diagrams; References; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #181826 ||.

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Titolo

How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity

Editore

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Data di pubblicazione

1994

ISBN 10

0297814990

ISBN 13

9780297814993

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Hardback in Dust Wrapper.

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prima edizione

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Very Good

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Darwin's concept of the origin of species by natural selection has been a spectacularly successful and durable scientific theory. But it actually fails in a basic objective, which is to explain the origins of the qualitative differences of structure between species. Life on Earth is described purely in historical terms, with no explanation of how different forms of organisms are generated. This is like saying that the Earth's orbit round the sun just happened to be elliptical, without any explanation of why that must be so because of the laws of dynamic motion. Goodwin's view of biology is radically different. He proposes that any organism is a dynamic self-organizing process that obeys certain principles of order. This offers answers to problems that Darwinism with its emphasis on genes and natural selection as determinants of biological form cannot answer. Goodwin describes how particular forms emerge and persist in different types of organism: examples include the leaf pattern of higher plants and the origin of the eye. Once the basic mechanisms of development are understood, these particular forms become self-explanatory.

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