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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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]Arnold Arb
Epistemology from an evolutionary point of view.Michael Bradie
The detection of phylogeny.Joseph Felsenstein
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme.S. J. Gould & R. C. Lewontin
A matter of individuality.David L. Hull
Four ways of “biologicizing” ethics.Philip Kitcher
Biological Classification: Toward a Synthesis of Opposing Methodologies.Ernst Mayr
Typological versus population thinking.Ernst Mayr
The propensity interpretation of fitness.Susan K. Mills & John H. Beatty
Moral Philosophy as Applied Science.Michael Ruse & Edward O. Wilson
Optimization Theory in Evolution.John Maynard Smith
The Continuing Search for Order.Robert R. Sokal
Excerpts from adaptation and natural selection.G. Williams
Levels of selection: An alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences.David Sloan Wilson

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