00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861970489 Buklod 20241114061237.0 g||| | || || ta 241114s1978 nyu rb |||1 u|eng d 0394735889 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00014925025 DLC BAG rda eng BF 702 P52 1978 Piaget, Jean 1896-1980 author. Comportement moteur de l'evolution. English Behavior and evolution Jean Piaget ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. First American edition. New York Pantheon Books ©1978. xxvi, 165 pages 19 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Translation of Le comportement moteur de l'evolution. Includes bibliographical references and index. Translator's acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Merits and drawbacks of the Lamarckian thesis -- Baldwin and organic selection -- Ethological view of behavior's role in evolution -- Cybernetic interaction, "genetic assimilation," and behavior -- Behavior and Weiss's hierarchy of systems -- Phenocopy as mediation between environmental influences and behavioral genic factors -- Psychobiological speculations on the problems of instincts in relation to the problems of evolution -- Some remarks on plant behavior -- General conclusions: Behavior, motor of evolution -- Index. What is the relationship between behavior and the processes which shape evolution? Why has behavior, whether it amounts to no more than a flower's reaction to light or encompasses the complexities of human thought, been so neglected by traditional evolutionary theory? Beginning with these questions, Jean Piaget offers a dazzling, at time demanding, inquiry into the state of our understanding of evolution. This is a task that takes Piaget from an investigation of the early giants Darwin and Lamarck, to the contributions of Weiss and Baldwin, to the role of cybernetics. Along the way he outlines the relation between instinct and evolution, habits and acquired characteristics. He criticizes those who reduce the question to a genetic determinism. And he challenges those who see no qualitative difference between the evolution of anatomical structures and the evolution of behavioral structures. What Piaget develops in this concise and remarkable work is a subtle, sophisticated theory of behavior in both the plant and the animal worlds. Drawing on his life's work, he argues that all organisms are active and creative, and that the forms of organization they create in their environment go to the heart of the meaning of behavior and the processes of evolution. A prolific writer on philosophy and biology, as well as the father of the development psychology he calls genetic epistemology, Jean Piaget has had as his main area of concern the genesis of abstract concepts (classes, relations, numbers) and physical concepts (space,speed, chance, time) in the developing child. His theories have been widely applied to education. Genetic psychology. Movement, Psychology of. Nicholson-Smith, Donald translator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN BF 702 P52 1978 Book