Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.
Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy at Bristol University. Before that he taught at the University of York for 3 years, and was a Jacobsen Research Fellow at the London School of Economics for 2 years. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Univeristy of Mexico for 1 year and received his doctorate in 1998 from the University of Oxford.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Natural Selection in the Abstract 2: Selection at Multiple Levels: Concepts and Methods 3: Causality and Multi-level Selection 4: Philosophical Issues in the Levels of Selection Debate 5: The Gene's Eye View and its Discontents 6: The Group Selection Controversy 7: Species Selection, Clade Selection and Macroevolution 8: Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions
Introduction 1: Natural Selection in the Abstract 2: Selection at Multiple Levels: Concepts and Methods 3: Causality and Multi-level Selection 4: Philosophical Issues in the Levels of Selection Debate 5: The Gene's Eye View and its Discontents 6: The Group Selection Controversy 7: Species Selection, Clade Selection and Macroevolution 8: Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions
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