Robert N. Brandon

Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology

Herausgeber: Ruse, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of Professor Brandon's recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521495455
• ISBN-10: 0521495458
• Artikelnr.: 21233454

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Adaptation and evolutionary theory
2. Biological teleology: questions and explanations
3. A structural description of evolutionary theory
4. The levels of selection
Part II: 5. Phenotypic plasticity, cultural transmission and human sociobiology
6. From icons to symbols: some speculations on the origins of language
7. Individuality, pluralism, and the phylogenetic species concept
8. The levels of selection: a hierarchy of interactors
Part III: 9. Theory and experiment in evolutionary biology
10. The co-evolution of organism and environment
11. Reductionism versus holism versus mechanism
References
Index.