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The nature of selection : evolutionary theory in philosophical focus /
The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts of natural selection, fitness, and adaptation and clarifies controversial issues concerning altruism...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Fitness, Selection, Adaptation; Chapter 1: Evolutionary Theory as a Theory of Forces; 1.1. The Prehistory of a Concept; 1.2. History and Theory; 1.3. Zero-Force States; 1.4. Darwinian Fitness; 1.5. Source Laws and Supervenience; Chapter 2: The Tautology Problem; 2.1. A Good Tautology Is Hard to Find; 2.2. A Little A Priori Truth Never Hurt Anyone; Chapter 3: Survival, Reproduction, Causation; 3.1. Fitness Is Causally Inert; 3.2. Selection Of and Selection For; Chapter 4: Chance; 4.1. The Randomness of Mutation.
- 4.2. Deterministic and Stochastic Processes4.3. What Laplace's Demon Would Be Missing; Chapter 5: Explanation; 5.1. Explanation and Prediction; 5.2. Variational and Developmental Explanation; 5.3. Population Thinking and Essentialism; Chapter 6: Adaptation; 6.1. Selection and Improvement; 6.2. Retrospect and Prospect; PART II: The Group Above and the Gene Below; Chapter 7: Beginnings; 7.1. Historical Background; 7.2. Transitivity and Context Dependence; 7.3. Parsimony; 7.4. Representability; 7.5. The Unit of Replication; 7.6. Adaptation and Artifact; 7.7. Group Selection without Altruism.
- 7.8. The Analysis of VarianceChapter 8: Causality; 8.1. Object and Property; 8.2. Coronaries and Correlations; 8.3. Fine-Tuning; Chapter 9: Consequences; 9.1. The Selfish Gene or the Artifactual Allele?; 9.2. Group Selection in Focus; 9.3. Altruism and Averaging; 9.4. Species Selection; References; Index.