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Cover of: Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
2008, Cambridge University Press
in English
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2007, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Adaptation / Tim Lewens
Population genetics / Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper Jr.
Units and levels of selection / Elisabeth A. Lloyd
What's wrong with the emergentist statistical interpretation of natural selection and random drift / Robert N. Brandon, Grant Ramsey
Gene / Paul E. Griffiths, Karola Stotz
Information in biology / Peter Godfrey-Smith
Reductionism (and antireductionism) in biology / Alexander Rosenberg
Mechanisms and models / Lindley Darden
Teleology / André Ariew
Macroevolution, minimalism, and the radiation of the animals / Kim Sterelny
Philosophy and phylogenetics: historical and current connections / Maureen Kearney
Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology / Francisco J. Ayala
Varieties of evolutionary psychology / David J. Buller
Neurobiology / Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Biological explanations of human sexuality: the genetic basis of sexual orientation / Christopher Horvath
Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zachary Ernst
What is an 'embryo' and how do we know? / Jane Maienschein
Evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler
Molecular and systems biology and bioethics / Jason Scott Robert
Ecology / Gregory M. Mikkelson
From ecological diversity to biodiversity / Sahotra Sarkar
Biology and religion / Robert T. Pennock
The moral grammar of narratives in history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-496) and index.

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Cambridge, New York
Other Titles
Philosophy of biology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
570.1
Library of Congress
QH331 .C285 2007, QH331.C285 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 513 p. :
Number of pages
513

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23142469M
Internet Archive
cambridgecompani00hull_968
ISBN 10
0521851289, 0521616719
ISBN 13
9780521851282, 9780521616713
LCCN
2006025898
OCLC/WorldCat
70877939
Library Thing
4422668
Goodreads
1002852
1203657

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