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Life Beyond the Gene
出版Oxford University Press, 2003
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / BiologyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyScience / Life Sciences / Evolution
ISBN01951503929780195150391
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oXk8DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Life Beyond the Gene, Steven Rose confronts the ideology of reductionism and ultra-Darwinism, with its insistence that all aspects of human life from sexual preference to infanticide, political orientation to violence, male domination to alcoholism, are in our genes and are the inevitable consequences of natural selection. These claims, Rose asserts, are not only socially naive, but fundamentally misunderstand the active and irreducible nature of living processes. Rose argues that life depends on the elaborate web of interactions that occur within cells, organisms, and ecosystems, in which DNA has one part to play. From early in their development, living organisms have to be capable of quasi-independent existence while growing to maturity. If we are to understand life, we must recapture an understanding of the entire living organism and its trajectory through time and space. Rose calls these trajectories lifelines. Provocative and incisive, Life Beyond the Gene provides a compelling response to those enthusiasts of the gene who would deny the complexity of life.