Making Sense of Evolution
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Making Sense of Evolution

The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

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Making Sense of Evolution

The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

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Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of "selection, " while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition.Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and presenting alternate theoretical interpretations that alleviate this incompatibility, Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan intertwine scientific and philosophical analysis to produce a coherent picture of evolutionary biology. Innovative and controversial, Making Sense of Evolution encourages further development of the Modern Synthesis and outlines what might be necessary for the continued refinement of this evolving field.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780226668352
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prelude: Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis
  4. 1. Natural Selection and Fitness: After the "Force" Metaphor
  5. 2. How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection
  6. 3. The Targets and Units of Selection: Individual Events and Population Dynamics
  7. 4. Studying Constraints through G-Matrices: The Holy Grail of Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
  8. 5. A Quarter Century of Spandrels: Adaptations, Adaptionisms, and Constraints in Biology
  9. 6. Functions and For-ness in Biology
  10. 7. Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations
  11. 8. Slippery Landscapes: The Promises and Limits of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor in Evolutionary Biology
  12. 9. Species as Family Resemblance Concepts: The (Dis-) Solution of the Species Problem?
  13. 10. Testing Biological Hypotheses: The Detective versus the Statistician
  14. Coda: A Philosophical Dialogue
  15. References
  16. Index