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Conceptual Issues In Evolutionary Biology

  • Conceptual Issues In Evolutionary Biology

  • Attribution

    edited by Elliott Sober

  • Publication Details

    Book, 3rd ed, MIT Press, 2007

  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
      (UPPER LEVEL)  QH366.2 .C64 2006         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. For example, the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that questions its main tenets. the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biology are living, growing disciplines. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • "Bradford books."

  • Contents

    • The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty
    • The two faces of fitness / Elliott Sober
    • Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection / George C. Williams
    • Levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson
    • The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
    • Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith
    • Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the coy female / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
    • Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth Lloyd
    • Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
    • Evolutionary psychology: a critique / David J. Buller
    • The evolutionary contingency thesis / John H. Beatty
    • Two outbreaks of lawlessness in recent philosophy of biology / Elliott Sober
    • 1953 and all that : a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher
    • Why the antireductionist consensus won’t survive the case of classical mendelian genetics / Kenneth Waters
    • The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliott Sober
    • Typological versus population thinking / Ernst Mayr
    • Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober
    • A matter of individuality / David L. Hull
    • Choosing among alternative "phylogenetic" species concepts / David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue
    • Cases in which parsimony and compatibility methods will be positively misleading / Joseph Felsenstein
    • The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis / James Farris
    • Why there are no human races / Kwame Anthony Appiah
    • A new perspective on the race debate / Robin O. Andreasen
    • Does culture evolve? / Joseph Fracchia and Richard C. Lewontin
    • Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober
    • Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson
    • Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher

  • ISBN

    • 0262693380
    • 9780262693387
    • 0262195496
    • 9780262195492

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