Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober.

Contributor(s):

Sober, Elliott [editor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, c2006.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxviii, 612 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780262693387 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 rd 576.8 SOB/C

LOC classification:

QH366.2 .C64 2006

Summary: These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, law in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptionism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics. Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Transit Campus Biology	576.8 SOB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002200

Includes bibliographical references and index.

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, law in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptionism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics. Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand.

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