Susan Oyama, Russell D. Gray (University of Aukland), Paul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney)
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to...
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social scienc...
"The Ontogeny of Information" is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the...
"The Ontogeny of Information" is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human developme...
