Re: [xmca] Dialects of Development- Sameroff

[Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com>]

Yes, I was thinking that Lewontin's triple helix might be seen as the  
"biological evolution" leg in yours, Martin.  I like yours.  And as  
you point out, it is on an entirely different level of motion and  
development than Lewontin's on biology. Yours strikes me as being  
about human development, reflecting Vygotsky's conceptualization of  
the interweaving of the processes of phylogenesis, history and  
ontogenesis.

If we keep up this idea of putting helixes within helixes - and we  
already do have a leg up on triangles within triangles, don't  
we?  :-)) - we could wind up with the complex braiding that Mike  
describes in Cultural Psychology.

- Steve


On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Martin Packer wrote:

> That's right, Steve, though I'm pretty sure I didn't see this title  
> until after I made the diagram. And of course Lewontin is referring  
> to different factors. And, also, of course, collagen actually does  
> have a triple-helix structure, which Francis Crick thought was more  
> interesting than the double helix of DNA, but which got very little  
> attention.
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Steve Gabosch wrote:
>
> > On the triple helix metaphor:  Richard Lewontin used it in the  
> > title of his 1998/2000 collection of essays _The Triple Helix:  
> > Gene, Organism and Environment_.  His core theme regarding  
> > biological development is that solely considering the interaction  
> > between gene and organism makes for bad biology.   The environment  
> > has decisive influence as well.
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> >
> > On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 14, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Larry Purss wrote:
> > >
> > > > What do others think of the double helix (and/or the other visual  
> > > > images in the article). How central is the double helix (either  
> > > > as an "is Like" or "IS" objectification) to your notions of the  
> > > > human sciences?
> > > > Larry
> > > ...and I am pretty sure I stole, I mean appropriated, this from  
> > > someone; I've forgotten who...
> > > <PastedGraphic-2.pdf>
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