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626280
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology /\ edited by Elliott Sober
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| Edition Statement
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Third edition
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xxviii, 612 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0262195496 (alk. paper)
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: 9780262195492 (alk. paper)
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: 0262693380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780262693387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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"Bradford books."
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty -- The two faces of fitness / Elliott Sober -- Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection / George C. Williams -- Levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson -- The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin -- Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith -- Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the coy female / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth Lloyd -- Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Evolutionary psychology: a critique / David J. Buller -- The evolutionary contingency thesis / John H. Beatty -- Two outbreaks of lawlessness in recent philosophy of biology / Elliott Sober -- 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- Why the antireductionist consensus won't survive the case of classical mendelian genetics / Kenneth Waters -- The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliott Sober -- Typological versus population thinking / Ernst Mayr -- Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober -- A matter of individuality / David L. Hull -- Choosing among alternative "phylogenetic" species concepts / David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue -- Cases in which parsimony and compatibility methods will be positively misleading / Joseph Felsenstein -- The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis / James Farris -- Why there are no human races / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- A new perspective on the race debate / Robin O. Andreasen -- Does culture evolve? / Joseph Fracchia and Richard C. Lewontin -- Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober -- Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson -- Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher
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| Subject
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology)-- Philosophy
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Biology-- Philosophy
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Biological Evolution
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| Dewey Classification
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576.8
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| LC Classification
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QH366.2.C64 2006
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2007 B-108
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QH 366.2C7435 2006
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| Added Entry
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Sober, Elliott
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