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Making sense of evolution [electronic resource] : the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology / Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 300 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226668352 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226668355 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making sense of evolution.DDC classification:
  • 576.8 22
LOC classification:
  • QH366.2 .P545 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Prelude Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis; One Natural Selection and Fitness; Two How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection; Three The Targets and Units of Selection; Four Studying Constraints through G-Matrices; Five A Quarter Century of Spandrels; Six Functions and For-ness in Biology; Seven Testing Adaptive Hypotheses; Eight Slippery Landscapes; Nine Species as Family Resemblance Concepts; Ten Testing Biological Hypotheses; Coda A Philosophical Dialogue; References; Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.

Acknowledgments; Prelude Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis; One Natural Selection and Fitness; Two How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection; Three The Targets and Units of Selection; Four Studying Constraints through G-Matrices; Five A Quarter Century of Spandrels; Six Functions and For-ness in Biology; Seven Testing Adaptive Hypotheses; Eight Slippery Landscapes; Nine Species as Family Resemblance Concepts; Ten Testing Biological Hypotheses; Coda A Philosophical Dialogue; References; Index.

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