Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology

Preface Acknowledgements Part I. The Problem of Form: 1. Introduction: forms and kinds 2. The old dialectic: empirical classification and Darwinian theory 3. The ontological status of Taxa: material practice 4. The ontological status of Taxa: theoretical practice 5. Rational systematics and morphogenetic theory: a new dialectic? 6. Putting the organism together again Part II. Fields and Forms: 7. Segments, symmetries, and epigenetic maps 8. The unitary morphogenetic field 9. A generative biology References Index.