1st Edition

Evolutionary Change Toward a Systemic Theory of Development and Maldevelopment

230 Pages

by Routledge

230 Pages

by Routledge

230 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1997 Evolutionary Change addresses the somatic mechanism of change. Although astounding advances in molecular biology have opened up new engineering possibilities to shape our future in terms of "improving" the human species as well as eradicating all kinds of pathological characteristics of biological development, these possibilities pose potentially serious dangers.... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: An Analogy Between Socio-Economic and Biological Mechanisms of Change

1 Economic Mechanisms of Change and Biological Evolution

2. Mechanisms of Change in Socio-Political Systems and Biological Evolution

Part II: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change: Normal Case

3. The Mechanisms of Biological Change – General Characteristics

4. Two Classes of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change

5. Internal Mechanisms of Change

6. Special Features of the Somatic Mechanism of Change

7. Some Features of the Germatic Mechanism of Change

Part III: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change: Pathology