Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology
By: edited by Elliott Sober
Contributors: Sober, Elliott
Edition: 3rd ed
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780262195492; 9780262693387
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy; Biology -- Philosophy
Description: 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, law in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptionism, 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.
Notes: "Bradford books."

Includes bibliographical references and index