Adaptationism and optimality
By: edited by Steven Hecht Orzack, Elliott Sober
Contributors: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology; Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780511609084
Subjects: Adaptation (Biology)
Other titles: Cambridge books online.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction Steven Hecht Orzack and Elliott Sober 1; title: 1 A Likelihood Framework for the Phylogenetic Analysis; title: of Adaptation David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue 24; title: 2 Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and the Method of; title: Controlled Comparisons Steven Hecht Orzack and; title: Elliott Sober 45; title: 3 Optimality and Phylogeny: A Critique of Current; title: Thought Hudson Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman 64; title: 4 Fit of Form and Function, Diversity of Life, and; title: Procession of Life as an Evolutionary Game; title: Joel S. Brown 114; title: 5 Optimality and Evolutionary Stability under Short-Term; title: and Long-Term Selection Ilan Eshel and; title: Marcus W. Feldman 161; title: 6 Selective Regime and Fig Wasp Sex Ratios: Toward; title: Sorting Rigor from Pseudo-Rigor in Tests of Adaptation; title: Edward Allen Herre, Carlos A. Machado, and Stuart A. West 191; title: 7 Is Optimality Over the Hill? The Fitness Landscapes of; title: Idealized Organisms George W. Gilchrist and; title: Joel G. Kingsolver 219; title: 8 Adaptation, Optimality, and the Meaning of Phenotypic; title: Variation in Natural Populations Kenneth J. Halama and; title: David N. Reznick 242; title: 9 Adaptationism, Optimality Models, and Tests of; title: Adaptive Scenarios Peter Abrams 273; title: 10 Adaptation and Development: On the Lack of; title: Common Ground Ron Amundson 303; title: 11 Three Kinds of Adaptationism Peter Godfrey-Smith 335; title: 12 Adaptation, Adaptationism, and Optimality; title: Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. 358.