Form and transformation : generative and relational principles in biology

摘要: Preface Acknowledgements Part I. The Problem of Form: 1. Introduction: forms and kinds 2. old dialectic: empirical classification Darwinian theory 3. ontological status Taxa: material practice 4. theoretical 5. Rational systematics morphogenetic theory: a new dialectic? 6. Putting the organism together again II. Fields Forms: 7. Segments, symmetries, epigenetic maps 8. unitary field 9. A generative biology References Index.