Making Sense of Evolution : The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology /

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Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories-selection, adaptation, and species-that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the disci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Pigliucci, Massimo (Autor), Kaplan, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
Evolution (Biology).
SCIENCE / General.
biology, life sciences, evolution, evolutionary studies, adaptation, philosophy of science, species, history, theory, interpretation, experimental methods, methodology, definitions, conceptual difficulties, theoretical interpretations, philosophical analysis, scientific thought, academic writing, coherent picture, innovative, controversial, modern synthesis, adaptive landscape, quantitative genetics, natural selection, population dynamics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PRELUDE. Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis
  • 1. Natural Selection and Fitness
  • 2. How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection
  • 3. The Targets and Units of Selectlon
  • 4. Studying Constraints through G-Matrices
  • 5. A Quarter Century of Spandrels
  • 6. Functions and For-ness in Biology
  • 7. Testing Adaptive Hypotheses
  • 8. Slippery Landscapes
  • 9. Species as Family Resemblance Concepts
  • 10. Testing Biological Hypotheses
  • CODA. A Philosophical Dialogue
  • References
  • Index

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