An Evolutionary Story of Agency: How Life Evolved to Act on Its Own
暫譯: 自主行動的進化故事：生命如何演化以自我行動

Moreno, Álvaro, Peretó, Juli

An Evolutionary Story of Agency: How Life Evolved to Act on Its Own
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-10-02
  • 售價: $2,770
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,632
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 108
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3032056438
  • ISBN-13: 9783032056436

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This open access book exposes the role of "agency" in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions in order to achieve goals or to navigate and interact with its environment. The question of agency has become a hot and controversial topic in Biology and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences. This volume studies said topic through its historical expressions, investigating how and why it has appeared, and what was its selective advantage in the past, assuming a continuity in how it has evolved in different life forms. By also explaining how and why agency has evolved and become more complex in some branches of the tree of life, the authors show how life has made its way on our planet with forms of agency as diverse as those shown by bacteria, plants or animals, which are the most sophisticated and complex agents. The book is of great interest to a broad audience, whether philosophically or biologically inclined, interested in understanding fundamental aspects of how life works and in seeking explanations for why life has been so successful on planet Earth.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書籍揭示了「能動性」在生命歷史中的角色。能動性被理解為生物體行動、做決策以及控制其行為以達成目標或與環境互動的能力。能動性的問題已成為生物學和自然科學哲學中的熱門且具爭議性的話題。本書通過其歷史表現來研究該主題，探討其出現的方式和原因，以及在過去的選擇優勢，假設其在不同生命形式中的演變具有連續性。作者還解釋了能動性如何以及為何在生命樹的某些分支中演變並變得更加複雜，顯示了生命如何在我們的星球上發展出多樣的能動性形式，這些形式包括細菌、植物或動物，這些都是最精密和複雜的代理者。這本書對於廣泛的讀者群體都具有很大的興趣，無論是對哲學還是生物學感興趣，皆希望理解生命運作的基本方面，並尋求解釋為何生命在地球上如此成功。

作者簡介

Álvaro Moreno is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science of the University of Basque Country and he is currently Associate Researcher at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). His research activities have been developed in the areas of Philosophy of Biology, Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Philosophy of Cognitive Science. He has developed, together with numerous collaborators, a distinctive interdisciplinary research line on Biological Autonomy, which bridges philosophy and science, which has materialized in the creation of the IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind & Society, in San Sebastian (Spain). He is currently leading a subproject on the Origin and Evolution Agency, within the wider research Project "Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose", funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Juli Peretó is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (University of Valencia) and researcher at Institute for IntegrativeSystems Biology I2SysBio (UV-CSIC), his focus spans the evolution of metabolism, minimal cell concept, bioprospection of inhospitable habitats, and the history of ideas on the natural origin and the artificial synthesis of life. Teaching metabolism with an evolutionary perspective, he coordinated an Erasmus Intensive Program "Origin, Evolution and Future of the Biosphere" and held leadership roles in the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life ISSOL. Elected Fellow of ISSOL, he co-founded the biotech spin-off Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence and contributed to books on synthetic biology, origins of life and scientific gastronomy. His latest pursuit blends evolutionary biology with gastronomy.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Álvaro Moreno 是巴斯克國立大學的科學哲學名譽教授，目前擔任多諾斯提亞國際物理中心（DIPC）的副研究員。他的研究活動涵蓋生物哲學、人工生命、複雜系統和認知科學哲學等領域。他與眾多合作者共同發展了一條獨特的跨學科研究路線，專注於生物自主性，這一研究橋接了哲學與科學，並在西班牙聖塞巴斯蒂安創立了生命、心智與社會研究中心（IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind & Society）。他目前正在領導一個關於起源與演化代理的子項目，該項目是更大研究計畫「代理性、方向性與功能：目的科學的基礎」，該計畫由約翰·坦普頓基金會資助。

Juli Peretó 是瓦倫西亞大學的生物化學與分子生物學教授，並在整合系統生物學研究所（I2SysBio，UV-CSIC）擔任研究員，他的研究重點包括代謝的演化、最小細胞概念、對惡劣棲息地的生物探勘，以及關於生命自然起源和人工合成的思想歷史。他以演化的視角教授代謝，並協調了一個名為「生物圈的起源、演化與未來」的伊拉斯謨密集課程，並在國際生命起源研究學會（ISSOL）中擔任領導角色。作為ISSOL的當選會員，他共同創立了生技新創公司Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence，並為合成生物學、生命起源和科學美食等書籍作出貢獻。他最新的追求將演化生物學與美食學相結合。

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