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Alexander Rosenberg

Darwinian Reductionism

Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology

272 pages, 3 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2006

Cloth $40.00

ISBN: 9780226727295   Published September 2006

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Preface
Introduction: Biology's Untenable Dualism
1. What Was Reductionism?
2. Reductionism and Developmental Molecular Biology
3. Are There Really Informational Genes and Developmental Programs?
4. Dobzhansky's Dictum and the Nature of Biological Explanation
5. Central Tendencies and Individual Organisms
6. Making Natural Selection Safe for Reductionists
7. Genomics, Human History, and Cooperation
8. How Darwinian Reductionism Refutes Genetic Determinism
References
Index
Subjects



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