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- catalog abstract "What is the relationship between behavior and the processes which shape evolution? Why has behavior, whether it amounts to no more than a flower's reaction to light or encompasses the complexities of human thought, been so neglected by traditional evolutionary theory? Beginning with these questions, Jean Piaget offers a dazzling, at time demanding, inquiry into the state of our understanding of evolution. This is a task that takes Piaget from an investigation of the early giants Darwin and Lamarck, to the contributions of Weiss and Baldwin, to the role of cybernetics. Along the way he outlines the relation between instinct and evolution, habits and acquired characteristics. He criticizes those who reduce the question to a genetic determinism. And he challenges those who see no qualitative difference between the evolution of anatomical structures and the evolution of behavioral structures. What Piaget develops in this concise and remarkable work is a subtle, sophisticated theory of behavior in both the plant and the animal worlds. Drawing on his life's work, he argues that all organisms are active and creative, and that the forms of organization they create in their environment go to the heart of the meaning of behavior and the processes of evolution. A prolific writer on philosophy and biology, as well as the father of the development psychology he calls genetic epistemology, Jean Piaget has had as his main area of concern the genesis of abstract concepts (classes, relations, numbers) and physical concepts (space, speed, chance, time) in the developing child. His theories have been widely applied to education.".
- catalog alternative "Behavior & evolution".
- catalog alternative "Comportement moteur de l'évolution. English".
- catalog contributor b1379405.
- catalog created "c1978.".
- catalog date "1978".
- catalog date "c1978.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1978.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Translator's acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Merits and drawbacks of the Lamarckian thesis -- Baldwin and organic selection -- Ethological view of behavior's role in evolution -- Cybernetic interaction, "genetic assimilation," and behavior -- Behavior and Weiss's hierarchy of systems -- Phenocopy as mediation between environmental influences and behavioral genic factors -- Psychobiological speculations on the problems of instincts in relation to the problems of evolution -- Some remarks on plant behavior -- General conclusions: Behavior, motor of evolution -- Index.".
- catalog description "What is the relationship between behavior and the processes which shape evolution? Why has behavior, whether it amounts to no more than a flower's reaction to light or encompasses the complexities of human thought, been so neglected by traditional evolutionary theory? Beginning with these questions, Jean Piaget offers a dazzling, at time demanding, inquiry into the state of our understanding of evolution. This is a task that takes Piaget from an investigation of the early giants Darwin and Lamarck, to the contributions of Weiss and Baldwin, to the role of cybernetics. Along the way he outlines the relation between instinct and evolution, habits and acquired characteristics. He criticizes those who reduce the question to a genetic determinism. And he challenges those who see no qualitative difference between the evolution of anatomical structures and the evolution of behavioral structures. What Piaget develops in this concise and remarkable work is a subtle, sophisticated theory of behavior in both the plant and the animal worlds. Drawing on his life's work, he argues that all organisms are active and creative, and that the forms of organization they create in their environment go to the heart of the meaning of behavior and the processes of evolution. A prolific writer on philosophy and biology, as well as the father of the development psychology he calls genetic epistemology, Jean Piaget has had as his main area of concern the genesis of abstract concepts (classes, relations, numbers) and physical concepts (space, speed, chance, time) in the developing child. His theories have been widely applied to education.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 165 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Behavior and evolution.".
- catalog identifier "0394418107 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Behavior and evolution.".
- catalog issued "1978".
- catalog issued "c1978.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Behavior and evolution.".
- catalog subject "BF702 .P49313 1978".
- catalog subject "Genetic psychology.".
- catalog subject "Movement, Psychology of.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Translator's acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Merits and drawbacks of the Lamarckian thesis -- Baldwin and organic selection -- Ethological view of behavior's role in evolution -- Cybernetic interaction, "genetic assimilation," and behavior -- Behavior and Weiss's hierarchy of systems -- Phenocopy as mediation between environmental influences and behavioral genic factors -- Psychobiological speculations on the problems of instincts in relation to the problems of evolution -- Some remarks on plant behavior -- General conclusions: Behavior, motor of evolution -- Index.".
- catalog title "Behavior & evolution".
- catalog title "Behavior and evolution / Jean Piaget ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.".
- catalog title "Comportement moteur de l'évolution. English".
- catalog type "text".