Making sense of evolution: the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology
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Main Author: Pigliucci, Massimo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index
Evolutionary biology and conceptual analysis -- Natural selection and fitness -- How (not) to measure natural selection -- The targets and units of selection -- Studying constraints through G-matrices -- A quarter century of spandrels -- Functions and for-ness in biology -- Testing adaptive hypotheses -- Slippery landscapes -- Species as family resemblance concepts -- Testing biological hypotheses
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 300 pages)
ISBN:0226668355
9780226668352

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