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- catalog abstract ""The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12727418.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.".
- catalog description "Readers of the Book of the Universe -- An Objectivist Proposal for the Unification of Knowledge -- In the Quest for the Meaning -- Living Nature--A Gnostic Approach -- Biology from the Mechanistic to the Eidetic -- Neo-Darwinism -- Biological Structuralism -- Chance and Lysenkoist Biology -- The Biological Field -- Epigenetics -- The Specter of Vitalism -- Superorganism -- The Language Metaphor of Life? -- Life as a Hermeneutic Category -- The Speech of Proteins -- Morphogenesis -- Ontogeny of the Planetary Organism.".
- catalog extent "x, 245 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195149483 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "570/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Biology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Evolutionary developmental biology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "QH331 .M315 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Readers of the Book of the Universe -- An Objectivist Proposal for the Unification of Knowledge -- In the Quest for the Meaning -- Living Nature--A Gnostic Approach -- Biology from the Mechanistic to the Eidetic -- Neo-Darwinism -- Biological Structuralism -- Chance and Lysenkoist Biology -- The Biological Field -- Epigenetics -- The Specter of Vitalism -- Superorganism -- The Language Metaphor of Life? -- Life as a Hermeneutic Category -- The Speech of Proteins -- Morphogenesis -- Ontogeny of the Planetary Organism.".
- catalog title "Readers of the book of life : contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology / by Anton Markoš.".
- catalog type "text".