Agency and choice in evolution

Delafield-Butt, Jonathan (2021) Agency and choice in evolution. Biosemiotics, 14. pp. 79-85. ISSN 1875-1350 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09420-4)

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Abstract

Denis Noble has produced a succinct analysis of the ‘Illusions of the Modern Synthesis’. At the heart of the matter is the place of agency in organisms. This paper examines the nature of conscious agent action in organisms, and the role of affects in shaping agent choice. It examines the dual role these have in shaping evolution, and in the social worlds of scientists that shape evolutionary theory. Its central claim follows Noble, that agency is central to the structure of organisms, and raises careful consideration for the role animal agency and affective evaluations in biology, and in biologists.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	76076
  Dates:	Date Event 30 April 2021 Published 23 April 2021 Published Online 5 April 2021 Accepted
  Subjects:	Education > Special aspects of education Medicine > Internal medicine > Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
  Department:	Strategic Research Themes > Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	14 Apr 2021 11:13
  Last modified:	09 Apr 2024 02:20
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/76076