The Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 513 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6628999 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Adaptation
- 2. Population Genetics
- 3. Units and Levels of Selection
- 4. What's Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?
- 5. Gene
- 6. Information in Biology
- 7. Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology
- 8. Mechanisms and Models
- 9. Teleology
- 10. Macroevolution, Minimalism, and the Radiation of the Animals
- 11. Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections
- 12. Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology
- 13. Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology
- 14. Neurobiology
- 15. Biological Explanations of Human Sexuality: The Genetic Basis of Sexual Orientation
- 16. Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology
- 17. What Is an 'Embryo' and How Do We Know?
- 18. Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- 19. Molecular and Systems Biology and Bioethics
- 20. Ecology
- 21. From Ecological Diversity to Biodiversity
- 22. Biology and Religion
- 23. The Moral Grammar of Narratives in History of Biology: The Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology
- Reference List
- Index
