J. Scott Turner

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J. Scott Turner (born 11 August 1951) is an American

New York Times Book Review,[4] EMBO Reports,[5]
and American Scientist.[6]

Overview

Working at the interface among physiology, evolution and design led Turner to formulate the idea of the Extended Organism,[7] reviewed in a range of journals, including Nature.[8] Turner's current research focuses on the emergence of super-organismal structure and function in mound-building termites of southern Africa (Macrotermes). His extended organism idea was inspired by his work on termite mounds that clarified how the mound functions as an external lung for respiratory gas exchange for the colony as a whole.[9][10] His prior work on the thermal capacity of incubated birds' eggs showed that an egg with an embryo and an incubating parent function not as two separate organisms but as a coupled physiological unit.[11][12][13]

Building upon this empirical work, Turner has argued that the principle of

Cambridge University while writing his third book, "Purpose and Desire", which builds the case that evolution operates through the complementary principles of Darwinian natural selection (biology’s "First Law") coupled to homeostasis
(biology’s "Second Law").

Publications

References

  1. ^ Turner, J. S. 2002. The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures. Harvard University Press.
  2. ^ Turner, J. Scott 2016. Semiotics of a superorganism. Biosemiotics 9: 85–102.
  3. ^ Laland, K. Review of The Extended Organism in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
  4. ^ Schwenk, K. (2000) The Apian Way From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology. A Review of J. Scott Turner's book, The Extended Organism. New York Times Book Review Dec 10.
  5. doi:10.1093/embo-reports/kvd112
  6. ^ Palumbi, S. (2001) Amazing Tales of Electric Lugworms: Metabolic Physiology Reaches Out. Review of J. Scott Turner. The Extended Organism. American Scientist. May–June.
  7. ^ Turner, J.S. 2007. The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself. Harvard University Press.
  8. doi:10.1038/446375a
  9. ^ Turner, J. S. 2001. On the mound of Macrotermes michaelseni as an organ of respiratory gas exchange. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74(6): 798-822.
  10. ^ Turner, J. S. 2000. "Architecture and morphogenesis in the mound of Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjöstedt) (Isoptera: Termitidae, Macrotermitinae)" in northern Namibia. Cimbebasia 16: 143-175.
  11. ^ Turner, J. S. 1997. On the thermal capacity of a bird’s egg warmed by a brood patch. Physiological Zoology 70: 470-480.
  12. ^ Turner, J. S. 1994. Transient thermal properties of contact-incubated chicken eggs. Physiological Zoology 67: 1426-1447.
  13. ^ Turner, J. S. 1994. Thermal impedance of a contact-incubated bird’s egg. Journal of Thermal Biology 19: 237-243.
  14. ^ Harvard University Press Author Forum
  15. ISBN 978-0-2621-9498-3
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  16. ^ "Purpose and Desire". Kirkus Reviews.
  17. ^ Pross, Addy. (2018). Purpose & Desire: What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It by J. Scott Turner. The Quarterly Review of Biology 93 (1): 18-19.
  18. ^ "The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself". Publishers Weekly.
  19. ^ Saffo, Mary Beth. (2007). Review: Design Problem: Does the internal physiology of animals imply a harmony of structure and functio? Reviewed Work: THE TINKERER'S ACCOMPLICE How Design Emerges from Life Itself by J. Scott Turner. The American Scholar 76 (2): 132-134.
  20. ^ Bejan, Adrian. (2008). Review: Design in Nature: Tinkering and the Constructal Law. Reviewed Work: The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself by J Scott Turner. The Quarterly Review of Biology 83 (1): 91-94.

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