Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology - Elliott Sober (editor)
second edition
KORTE INHOUD
There has been considerable and lively debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and theology, adaptionism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.
"This book has no competition whatsoever. There is no anthology which even attempts to cover this ground. There are three virtues which an anthology might possess; in Sober's anthology I think you have an example of all three. First, it contains well-thought-out selection of reading of the sort that a student or non-specialist reader would find valuable as an introduction to the field...
"This book has no competition whatsoever. There is no anthology which even attempts to cover this ground. There are three virtues which an anthology might possess; in Sober's anthology I think you have an example of all three. First, it contains well-thought-out selection of reading of the sort that a student or non-specialist reader would find valuable as an introduction to the field...
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