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This 8 page paper relates the concept of the developmental challenge relative the philosophical perspectives on biology. In particular, this paper considers whether genic selectionists are guilty of ignoring the developmental process, and as a result, this paper outlines the developmental systems theory as a part of this argument. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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MHBioPhi.rtf The Philosophy of Biology Research Compiled by 10/2001 Please Visit
/aftersale.htm The developmental challenge refers to the conflicting views of genetic theorists and biologists about systems of change. Genic selectionists, for example, support the theory of natural selection, which
is based on an initial random change and then an increase in gene frequencies that results in biological changes in a species over time. Supporters of this Darwinistic perspective
maintain the importance of the random changes, while supporters of the developmental systems theory suggest that many different factors influence changes in a species that can be assessed and sometimes
reproduced. While evolutionists diminish the impact of enviornmental or external factors that influence change, Dworkin, Kitcher and other supporters of developmental systems in evolution have created consistent arguments challenge
some of the theoretical and philosophical premises of the genic selectionists. One question that arises when considering the varied views relative to the process of evolutioinary change is whether
genic selectionists are guilty of ignoring the developmental process, or if they are at least guilty of devaluing the developmental procss as a part of their study of evolutionary change.
In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and understanding the development through an integration of evolutionary
analysis. Genic Selectionists Theorists like Philip Kitcher have argued against what he has deemed the increasing interest in genetic determinism, or the belief that genes are
the central elements defining change in human populations. Genic selectionists have focused on the process of natural selection, the genetic process by which random changes in genetic composition ultimiately
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