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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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Table des matières:
- 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.