Evolution

Millstein, Roberta L. (2001) Evolution.

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Abstract

This paper is an overview of the philosophy of evolution - past, present, and future - to be published in <I>The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science</I>, edited by P.K. Machamer and M. Silberstein. It surveys the following topics: the neutralist/selectionist debate, the adapationist programme and its challenges, sociobiology, contingency, laws of biology, the species category problem, the species taxon problem, the tautology problem, fitness, units of selection.

Keywords:evolution, the neutralist/selectionist debate, the adapationist programme and its challenges, sociobiology, contingency, laws of biology, the species category problem, the species taxon problem, the tautology problem, fitness, units of selection
Subjects:Specific Sciences: Biology: Evolutionary Theory
ID Code:1139
Deposited By:Millstein, Roberta L.
Deposited On:15 April 2003

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