Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology

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The Mit Press. Bradford Books (1994)
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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 ...

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Levels of selection: An alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences.David Sloan Wilson
Sok. il, RR 1973. The species problem reconsidered. Syst. Zool 22: 360-374. Sokal, RR, and T.]. Crovello. 1970. The biological species concept: A critical evaluation. Amer. Nat. 104: 127-153. Stace, CA 1978. Breeding systems, variation patterns and species delimitation. Pp. 57-78, in Essays in plant taxonomy (HE Street, ed.). Academic Press, New York. [REVIEW]  (pages 31--232)Arnold Arb
Moral Philosophy as Applied Science.  (pages 61--421)Michael Ruse & Edward O. Wilson
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme.  (pages 73-90)S. J. Gould & R. C. Lewontin
Optimization Theory in Evolution.  (pages 91)John Maynard Smith
Excerpts from adaptation and natural selection.  (pages 121)G. Williams
The Continuing Search for Order.  (pages 126--235)Robert R. Sokal
Typological versus population thinking.  (pages 157--160)Ernst Mayr
The propensity interpretation of fitness.  (pages 263-286)Susan K. Mills & John H. Beatty
A matter of individuality.  (pages 335-360)David L. Hull
The detection of phylogeny.  (pages 363)Joseph Felsenstein
Four ways of “biologicizing” ethics.  (pages 439--50)Philip Kitcher
Epistemology from an evolutionary point of view.  (pages 453--476)Michael Bradie
Biological Classification: Toward a Synthesis of Opposing Methodologies.  (pages 510--277)Ernst Mayr

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