Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life; Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction; Trevor Pearce -- James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the Ame...
This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings ...
Organism and environment : ecological development, niche construction, and adaption Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems interacting with their environments. This innovative book ...
PragmatismEvolutionEnvironmentOrganismHerbert SpencerWilliam JamesJohn DeweyCharles Sanders PeirceW. E. B. DuboisJane AddamsThis review essay provides an analysis of the context and content of Trevor Pearce's Pragmatism's Evolution . The work highlights the bond between organisms and their environments....
An ecosystem is all the organisms living in a place together with their environment. An ecosystem can be huge, such as a large forest or desert. Or it can be small, such as a small pool or a single bush. Each ecosystem has its own collection of living and nonliving things.A swamp ...
In the human body, the external environment surrounds the body and provides the body with oxygen and nutrients. Also, wastes products of the cellular activities are excreted into the external environment. Conversely, the internal environment is defined to be a water-based medium in which...
An ibis(朱鹮) gets used to living in a warm, wet swamp and cannot live in a hot, d ry desert.An ecosystem is all the organisms living in a place together with their environment. An ecos ystem can be huge, such as a large forest or desert. Or it can be small, such as a small...
In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution. Many are familiar with John Dewey's 1909 ...
and arrows represent causal contributions.eApplication of the model (d) to the case of physical niche construction in reef-building corals. The highlighted arrows and states of corals (O) and their environment (E) constitute a causal path that matches a sequence of steps (1–3) in a causal...
33.D.推理判断题.根据第四段"The cares are so hot that scientists must wear special clothi ng to keep cool . "和"the researchers could only work for about 20 minutes at a time"可知, 洞穴内的环境很糟糕,不适合进入.因此D选 "T he environment in the caves is difficult t oadaptto(很难...