Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology

by Anton Markoš

This is a wide ranging and deeply learned examination of evolutionary developmental biology, and the foundations of life from the perspective of information theory. Hermeneutics was a method developed in the humanities to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. In Readers of the Book of Life, the author shows that living beings are also hermeneutical interpreters of genetics texts saved in DNA; an interpretation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195149483
• ISBN13: 9780195149487
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.8"