Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology 3e

0003/E3 /E

Sober, E. 저자(글)

MIT · 2006년 09월 01일

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These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics. Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand. For example, the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that questions its main tenets. One sign that a discipline is growing is that there are open questions, with multiple answers still in competition; the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biology are living, growing disciplines. Contributors: Robin O. Andreasen, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Baum, John H. Beatty, David J. Buller, Leda Cosmides, James Donoghue, Steven J. Farris, Joseph Felsenstein, Susan K. Finsen, Joseph Fracchia, Stephen Jay Gould, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, David L. Hull, Philip Kitcher, R. C. Lewontin, Elisabeth Lloyd, Ernst Mayr, Michael Ruse, John Maynard Smith, Elliott Sober, John Tooby, C. Kenneth Waters, George C. Williams, David Sloan Wilson, E. O. Wilson

작가정보

저자(글) Sober, E.

목차

• Preface	p. ix
  Contributors	p. xxvii
  Fitness
  The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness	p. 3
  The Two Faces of Fitness	p. 25
  Units of Selection
  Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection	p. 41
  Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences	p. 63
  Adaptationism
  The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme	p. 79
  Optimization Theory in Evolution	p. 99
  Women in the Evolutionary Process
  Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female	p. 131
  Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality	p. 161
  Evolutionary Psychology
  Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain	p. 175
  Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique	p. 197
  Laws in Evolutionary Theory
  The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis	p. 217
  Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology	p. 249
  Reductionism
  1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences	p. 261
  Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won't Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics	p. 283
  The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism	p. 301
  Essentialism and Population Thinking
  Typological versus Population Thinking	p. 325
  Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism	p. 329
  Species
  A Matter of Individuality	p. 363
  Choosing Among Alternative "Phylogenetic" Species Concepts	p. 387
  Phylogenetic Inference
  Cases in Which Parsimony and Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading	p. 409
  The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis	p. 423
  Race-Social Construction or Biological Reality?
  Why There Are No Human Races	p. 455
  A New Perspective on the Race Debate	p. 477
  Cultural Evolution
  Does Culture Evolve?	p. 505
  Models of Cultural Evolution	p. 535
  Evolutionary Ethics
  Moral Philosophy as Applied Science	p. 555
  Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics	p. 575
  Index	p. 587
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기본정보

ISBN	9780262693387 ( 0262693380 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 09월 01일
쪽수	612쪽
크기	180 * 227 * 30 mm / 975 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어