Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: book
- Topics: biology, philosophy, systems-thinking
Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin’s critique of reductionism in biology, arguing for a dialectical understanding of organisms and their environments.
Book Summary
Levins and Lewontin challenge the prevailing reductionist approach in biology, arguing that organisms are not passive objects shaped by their environment but active participants that construct their own conditions of existence.
Notes
- Organisms as active constructors of their environment
- Critique of biological reductionism