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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.