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 |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Biology: Evolutionary Theory |
| ID Code: | 1139 |
| Deposited By: | Millstein, Roberta L. |
| Deposited On: | 15 April 2003 |
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