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" Making sense of evolution : "
Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan.
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BL
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1035223
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b789593
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| Main Entry
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Pigliucci, Massimo,1964-
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Making sense of evolution : : the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology /\ Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) :: illustrations
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0226668355
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: 0226668363
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: 9780226668369
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0226668363
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0226668371
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9780226668369
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9780226668376
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Évolution (Biologie)
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Evolution (Biology)
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Evolution.
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Evolutionaire biologie.
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576.8
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QH366.2.P545 2006eb
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Kaplan, Jonathan Michael.
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