Making Sense of Evolution
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
236 pages, 9 halftones, 10 tables 6 x 9
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2006
Cloth $70.00
ISBN: 9780226668369
Published November 2006
Paper $28.00
ISBN: 9780226668376
Published November 2006
Acknowledgments Prelude - Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis 1. Natural Selection and Fitness: After the "Force" Metaphor 2. How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection 3. The Targets and Units of Selection: Individual Events and Population Dynamics 4. Studying Constraints through G-Matrices: Is Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Looking in Vain for the Holy Grail? 5. A Quarter Century of Spandrels: Adaptations, Adaptationisms, and Constraints in Biology 6. Functions and For-ness in Biology 7. Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations 8. Slippery Landscapes: The Promises and Limits of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor in Evolutionary Biology 9. Species as Family Resemblance Concepts: The (Dis-)Solution of the Species Problem? 10. Testing Biological Hypotheses: The Detective versus the Statistician Coda - A Philosophical Dialogue References Index
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