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pp. 506.paperback edition .”There has been debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.”
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| ISBN | 0262691620 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780262691628 | |
| Number of pages | 506 | |
| Original Title | Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology | |
| Published Date | 1997 | |
| Book Condition | Very good | |
| Jacket Condition | No Dustjacket | |
| Binding | Paperback | |
| Size | Larger 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge | |
| Edition | Third | |
| Category: | Natural History | |
| Author: | Elliott Sober | |
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
pp. 506.paperback edition .”There has been debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.”
| Weight | 1.25 kg |
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