Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition
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Book Description
There has been considerable and lively debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the-chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Brings together a set of essays, written by philosophers and scientists, concerning foundational issues that arise in the theory & practice of evolutionary biology. DLC: Evolution (Biology)
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition,Elliott Sober,The MIT Press,0262193361,Biology,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Evolution (Biology),General,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Organic Evolution,Philosophy,Science/Mathematics,Evolution,Philosophy / General,Philosophy of science
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