List of Illustrations
Foreword
1. Introduction: How to Understand Development?
Choices
Three Approaches to Development
Metaphors and Science
Environmental Influence: A General Picture Is Not Enough
Morality
Relationships with Other Discussions
2. Three Casual Approaches
Metaphors Surrounding DNA
Segmentation in Drosophila
Switches and Responses
Fields/Structures: Goodwin versus Neo-Darwinsim
Networks/Constructions
Comparison and Conclusions
3. Explanations in their Theoretical Context
Completeness and the Ideal Explanatory Text
The Ideal Text and Pragmatism
Trade-Offs
Linguistic Choices: Metaphors
Casual Explanation: Differences
Casual Explanation in Genetics
What Is Relational Causation
Structuralist Causation
Contructionist Causation
Similarities and Differences
Implications for the Pragmatics of Casual Explanation
4. Development and Evolution
Integrating Separate Disciplines
Proximate and Ultimate Causes
Internal versus External Causes
Integration: Internal Constraints?
Different Roles for the Environment
Epigenetics and Evolution
Developmental Systems and the Boundary Problem
5. Environmental Causes in Ontogeny
Conceptual Tools: Norms of Reaction
... And Polyphenisms
Epigenetics: Study of Gene Regulation
Heat-Shock Proteins
Making a Difference
Abnormal Environments
Toward an Ecology of Development
6. Ethics of Attention
Garfinkel and Value-Laden Explanations
Nonmoral Motives: Positivity Bias
Casual Choices and their Context
Contested Scientific Choices
Ethics of Attention
Notes
References
Coda
Index