Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology 3rd Edition by E Sober ISBN 0262195496 9780262195492

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ISBN 10: 0262195496 
ISBN 13: 9780262195492
Author: E Sober

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics.Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand. For example, the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that questions its main tenets. One sign that a discipline is growing is that there are open questions, with multiple answers still in competition; the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biology are living, growing disciplines.

Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology 3rd Table of contents:

• Units of Selection

  • Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection – George C. Williams

  • Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences – David Sloan Wilson

• Adaptationism

  • The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme – Stephen Jay Gould & Richard C. Lewontin

  • Optimization Theory in Evolution – John Maynard Smith

• Women in the Evolutionary Process

  • Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female – Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

  • Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality – Elisabeth Lloyd

• Evolutionary Psychology

  • Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain – John Tooby & Leda Cosmides

  • Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique – David J. Buller

• Laws in Evolutionary Theory

  • The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis – John H. Beatty

  • Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology – Elliott Sober

• Reductionism

  • 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences – Philip Kitcher

  • Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won’t Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics – C. Kenneth Waters

  • The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism – Elliott Sober

• Essentialism and Population Thinking

  • Typological versus Population Thinking – Ernst Mayr

  • Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism – Elliott Sober

• Species

  • A Matter of Individuality – David L. Hull

  • Choosing Among Alternative “Phylogenetic” Species Concepts – David A. Baum & Michael J. Donoghue

• Phylogenetic Inference

  • Cases in Which Parsimony and Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading – Joseph Felsenstein

  • The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis – James Farris

• Race – Social Construction or Biological Reality?

  • Why There Are No Human Races – Kwame Anthony Appiah

  • A New Perspective on the Race Debate – Robin O. Andreasen

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