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Chance in evolution /

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ramsey, Grant, 1972- (Editor ), Pence, Charles H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction : chance in evolution from Darwin to contemporary biology / Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence -- Contingency, chance, and randomness in ancient, medieval, and modern biology / David J. Depew -- Chance and chances in Darwin's early theorizing and in Darwinian theory today / Jonathan Hodge -- Chance in the modern synthesis / Anya Plutynski, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Lucas John Matthews, and Daniel Molter -- Is it providential, by chance? : Christian objections to the role of chance in Darwinian evolution / J. Matthew Ashley -- Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance? / Michael Ruse -- The reference class problem in evolutionary biology : distinguishing selection from drift / Michael Strevens -- Weak randomness at the origin of biological variation : the case of genetic mutations / Francesca Merlin -- Parallel evolution : what does it (not) tell us and why is it (still) interesting? / Thomas Lenormand, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Thomas Battaillon -- Contingent evolution : not by chance alone / Eric Desjardins -- History's windings in a flask : microbial experiments into evolutionary contingency / Zachary D. Blount -- Rolling the dice twice : evolving reconstructed ancient proteins in extant organisms / Betul Kacar -- Wonderful life revisited : chance and contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation / Douglas H. Erwin. 
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