Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. I Empirical Approaches
5. 1 Genome Analysis and Developmental Biology: The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System 15
6. 2 Genes and Form: Inherency in the Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms 38
7. II Looking Back into History
8. 3 From Genes as Determinants to DNA as Resource: Historical Notes on Development and Genetics 77
9. III Theorizing Genes
10. 4 The Origin of Species: A Structuralist Approach 99
11. 5 On the Problem of the Molecular versus the Organismic Approach in Biology 135
12. 6 Genes, Development, and Semiosis 152
13. 7 The Fearless Vampire Conservator: Philip Kitcher, Genetic Determinism, and the Informational Gene 175
14. 8 Genetics from an Evolutionary Process Perspective 199
15. 9 Genes—Causes—Codes: Deciphering dna’s Ontological Privilege 238
16. 10 Boundaries and (Constructive) Interaction 272
17. 11 Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin 290
18. 12 Poiesis and Praxis: Two Modes of Understanding Development 313
19. IV Social and Ethical Implications
20. 13 Developmental Emergence, Genes, and Responsible Science 337
21. 14 Nothing Like a Gene 349
22. Contributors 365
23. Index 369