Person: Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura
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First Name
Laura
Last Name
Nuño De La Rosa García
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Filosofía
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Lógica y Filosofía Teórica
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Filosofía
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Item Dispositional properties in evo-devo(Evolutionary developmental biology: a reference guide, 2021) Austin, Cristopher J.; Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura; Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura; Müller, Gerd B.In identifying intrinsic molecular chance and extrinsic adaptive pressures as the only causally relevant factors in the process of evolution, the theoretical perspective of the Modern Synthesis had a major impact on the perceived tenability of an ontology of dispositional properties. However, since the late 1970s, an increasing number of evolutionary biologists have challenged the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of this chance alone, extrinsic-only understanding of evolutionary change. Because morphological studies of homology, convergence, and teratology have revealed a space of possible forms and phylogenetic trajectories that is considerably more restricted than expected, evo-devo has focused on the causal contribution of intrinsic developmental processes to the course of evolution. Evo-devo’s investigation into the developmental structure of the modality of morphology – including both the possibility and impossibility of organismal form – has led to the utilization of a number of dispositional concepts that emphasize the tendency of the evolutionary process to change along certain routes. In this sense, and in contrast to the perspective of the Modern Synthesis, evo-devo can be described as a science of dispositions. This chapter discusses the recent philosophical literature on dispositional properties in evo-devo, exploring debates about both the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the central dispositional concepts utilized in contemporary evo-devo (e.g., variability, modularity, robustness, plasticity, and evolvability) and addressing the epistemological question of how dispositional properties challenge existing explanatory models in evolutionary biology.Item A history of evolvability: reconstructing and explaining the origination of a research agenda(Evolvability: a unifying concept in evolutionary biology?, 2023) Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura; Hansen, Thomas; Houle, David; Pavličev, Mihaela; Pélabon, CristopheThis chapter addresses the origination of evolvability research with the aim of contributing more generally to the reconstruction and explanation of the recent history of evolutionary biology. I combine co-citation analysis and first-person reconstructions of the history of the field obtained from a series of interviews with evolutionary biologists who were and/or are currently active in evolvability studies. After a preliminary methodological reflection, I present a reconstruction of the multiple origins of evolvability research. In the last section of the chapter, I make use of cultural evolution theory to discuss two kinds of explanations that might account for this pattern: “Selectionist” explanations highlight aspects of the methodological and intellectual landscape that promoted the acceptability and diffusion of the evolvability perspective; “evolvability” explanations address the role of internal, theoretical developments involved in the origination and diversification of evolvability research. Although selectionist explanations have been largely explored, internal factors accounting for the evolvability of scientific concepts and theories remain relatively neglected. I argue that explaining the recent history of evolvability research from this perspective provides promising insights to our understanding of science dynamics.Item Pattern and process in evo-devo: descriptions and explanations(EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, 2012) Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura; Etxeberria, Arantza; Regt, Henk W. de; Hartmann, Stephan; Okasha, SamirItem A world of opportunity within constraint: Pere Alberch’s early Evo-Devo(Pere Alberch: the creative trajectory of an evo-devo biologist, 2009) Etxeberria, Arantza; Nuño De La Rosa García, Laura; Rasskin-Gutman, Diego; De Renzi, Miquel