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Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]
Westview Press
2000
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| Edition: | 2. ed |
| Series: | Dimensions of philosophy series
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 236 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0813391261 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Boxes and Figures
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xv
1
What Is Evolutionary Theory?
1
1.1
What Is Evolution?
1
1.2
The Place of Evolutionary Theory in Biology,
5
1.3
Pattern and Process,
7
1.4
Historical Particulars and General Laws,
14
1.5
The Causes of Evolution,
18
1.6
The Domains of Biology and Physics,
22
1.7
Biological Explanations and Physical Explanations,
25
Suggestions for Further Reading,
26
2
Creationism
27
2.1
The Danger of Anachronism,
27
2.2
Paleys Watch and the Likelihood Principle,
30
2.3
Humes Critique,
33
2.4
Why Natural Selection Isn t a Random Process,
36
2.5
Two Kinds of Similarity,
39
2.6
The Problem of Predictive Equivalence,
42
2.7
Is the Design Hypothesis Unscientific?
46
2.8
The Incompleteness of Science,
55
Suggestions for Further Reading,
57
3
Fitness
58
3.1
An Idealized Life Cycle,
58
3.2
The Interpretation of Probability,
61
3.3
Two Ways to Find Out About Fitness,
68
3.4
The Tautology Problem,
70
3.5
Supervenience,
74
3.6
Advantageousness and Fitness,
78
ix
x
Contents
3.7
Teleology Naturalized,
83
Suggestions for Further Reading,
88
4
The Units of Selection Problem
89
4.1
Hierarchy,
89
4.2
Adaptation and Fortuitous Benefit,
96
4.3
Decoupling Parts and Wholes,
100
4.4
Red Herrings,
102
4.5
Examples,
108
4.6
Correlation, Cost, and Benefit,
111
Suggestions for Further Reading,
119
5
Adaptationism
121
5.1
What Is Adaptationism?
121
5.2
How Genetics Can Get in the Way,
125
5.3
Is Adaptationism Untestable?
130
5.4
The Argument from Complex Traits,
132
5.5
If Optimality Models Are Too Easy to Produce,
Lets Make Them Harder,
133
5.6
Game Theory,
138
Suggestions for Further Reading,
145
6
Systematics
146
6.1
The Death of Essentialism,
148
6.2
Individuality and the Species Problem,
152
6.3
Three Systematic Philosophies,
162
6.4
Internal Coherence,
169
6.5
Phylogenetic Inference Based on Overall Similarity,
172
6.6
Parsimony and Phylogenetic Inference,
176
Suggestions for Further Reading,
187
7
Sociobiology and the Extension of Evolutionary Theory
188
7.1
Biological Determinism,
189
7.2
Does Sociobiology Have an Ideological Function?
198
7.3
Anthropomorphism Versus Linguistic Puritanism,
201
7.4
Ethics,
206
7.5
Models of Cultural Evolution,
213
Suggestions for Further Reading,
220
References
221
Index
231
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