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Making sense of evolution : the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology /

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
Autor principal: Pigliucci, Massimo, 1964-
Otros Autores: Kaplan, Jonathan Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of "selection," while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition. Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and pre.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
ISBN:9780226668352
0226668355
0226668363
9780226668369