Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman, editors

Publisher:

MIT Press

Publication Date:

2005

Number of Pages:

455

Format:

Hardcover

Series:

The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

Price:

55.00

ISBN:

0-262-03326-7

Category:

Proceedings

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Table of Contents

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Series Foreword	vii

	Foreword by Herbert A. Simon	ix

	Preface	xv

I	INTRODUCTION	1

1	The Ubiquity of Modularity Werner Callebaut	3

II	EVO-DEVO: THE MAKING OF A MODULAR WORLD	29

2	Natural Selection and the Origin of Modules Günter P. Wagner, Jason Mezey and Raffaele Calabretta	33

3	Evolutionary Modules: Conceptual Analyses and Empirical Hypotheses Robert N. Brandon	51

4	Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meets Levels of Selection: Modular Integration or Competition, or Both? Rasmus G. Winther	61

5	Modularity in Evolution: Some Low-Level Questions Lee Altenberg	99

6	Evolutionary Lock-In and the Origin of Modularity in RNA Structure Lauren Ancel Meyers and Walter Fontana	129

7	Amphibian Variations: The Role of Modules in Mosaic Evolution Gerhard Schlosser	143

III	EVO-PATTERNS: WORKING TOWARD A GRAMMAR OF FORMS	181

8	The Remodularization of the Organism Daniel W. McShea and Carl Anderson	185

9	Modularity: Jumping Forms within Morphospace Diego Rasskin-Gutman	207

10	Morphological Modularity and Macroevolution: Conceptual and Empirical Aspects Gunther J. Eble	221

11	Hierarchical Integration of Modular Structures in the Evolution of Animal Skeletons Roger D.K. Thomas	239

12	Modularity in Art Slavik V. Jablan	259

13	Modularity at the Boundary Between Art and Science Angela D. Buscalioni, Alicia de la Iglesia, Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni and Anne Dejoan	283

IV	MODULARITY OF MIND AND CULTURE	305

14	Evolutionary Connectionism and Mind/Brain Modularity Raffaele Calabretta and Domenico Parisi	309

15	Modularity and Chunking Fernand Gobet	331

16	Modularity of Cognitive Organization: Why It Is so Appealing and Why It Is Wrong Boris M. Velichkovsky	353

17	Decomposability and Modularity of Economic Interactions Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali and Marco Valente	383

18	The Natural Logic of Communicative Possibilities: Modularity and Presupposition D. Kimbrough Oller	409

	Contributors	435

	Index	437