Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 513 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521851282 (hardback) 0521851289 (hardback) 9780521616713 (pbk.) 0521616719 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | Q |
| CLC: |
Q-05 Q-02 |
| Call Number: | Q-02/C178 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-496) and index. Adaptation / Tim Lewens -- Population genetics / Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper Jr. -- Units and levels of selection / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- What's wrong with the emergentist statistical interpretation of natural selection and random drift / Robert N. Brandon, Grant Ramsey -- Gene / Paul E. Griffiths, Karola Stotz -- Information in biology / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Reductionism (and antireductionism) in biology / Alexander Rosenberg -- Mechanisms and models / Lindley Darden -- Teleology / André Ariew -- Macroevolution, minimalism, and the radiation of the animals / Kim Sterelny -- Philosophy and phylogenetics: historical and current connections / Maureen Kearney -- Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology / Francisco J. Ayala -- Varieties of evolutionary psychology / David J. Buller -- Neurobiology / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- Biological explanations of human sexuality: the genetic basis of sexual orientation / Christopher Horvath -- Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zachary Ernst -- What is an 'embryo' and how do we know? / Jane Maienschein -- Evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Molecular and systems biology and bioethics / Jason Scott Robert -- Ecology / Gregory M. Mikkelson -- From ecological diversity to biodiversity / Sahotra Sarkar -- Biology and religion / Robert T. Pennock -- The moral grammar of narratives in history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards. |