Life Out of Balance : Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World (Nexus: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine)

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Life Out of Balance : Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World (Nexus: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 360 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780817320898
  • DDC分類 612.022

Full Description

Traces historical developments in physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the decades following World War II.

If natural selection constitutes the first law of biology, supporters claim that homeostasis is a second law, equally important and closely related to the first. Such claims notwithstanding, homeostasis has generated a series of controversies since it was formalized by Walter Cannon in the late 1920s. Critics contended that Cannon took a too optimistic view of life, ignoring not only pathological deviations from normality, but also failing to adequately explain the ability of living things to respond adaptively to environmental challenges.

Underlying these controversies was the unresolved problem of integrating physiology and other areas of functional biology with the emerging evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian natural selection. The physiological idea of homeostasis as the adaptive "fit" between the organism and its environment and the Darwinian idea of adaptation and fitness in terms of reproductive success might seem to be complementary in an unproblematic way, but historically they have had an uneasy relationship.

Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines. During the decades surrounding World War II, these ideas developed in several quite different contexts and led to greater debates about the merits of such models as applied to larger systems, including society at large. Particularly in its later cybernetic form homeostasis seemed to provide new ways of discussing balance and regulation that avoided discredited approaches of earlier champions of vitalism and mechanism. It provided a common perspective and terminology for discussing self-regulating "systems" whether mechanical, biological, or social. Although enormously fruitful and influential, homeostatic perspectives also generated numerous controversies when critics questioned the degree to which biological systems are characterized by balance and self-regulation. Resolving these controversies continues to be a challenge in modern biology.

Contents

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Adaptation and the Wisdom of the Body
Chapter 2. Bodily Wisdom or Stupidity?
Chapter 3. Free and Independent Life
Chapter 4. Living Water
Chapter 5. Physiological Ecology from an Engineering Perspective
Chapter 6. An Experimental Naturalist in the Laboratory and Field
Chapter 7. Complexities of Thermoregulation
Chapter 8. Physiological Teamwork, Homeostasis, and Coadaptation
Chapter 9. Limits of Tolerance, Adaptation, and Speciation
Chapter 10. Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Homeostatic Populations
Chapter 11. Symbiosis and Coadaptation in Homeostatic Ecosystems
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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