Thinking about Evolution
Subtitle: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives
Contributors: Rama S. Singh (Editor); Costas B. Krimbas (Editor); Diane B. Paul (Editor); John Beatty (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780521620703
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Evolution; Genetics (non-medical); Organic Evolution; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Genetics; Evolution (Biology)
First sentence: In a famous synecdoche, Dobzhansky (1951) once defined evolution as "a change in the genetic composition of populations" (p. 16), an epigram that should not be mistaken for the claim that everything worth saying about evolution is contained in statements about genes, although from reading Dobzhansky's own work, it is a mistake that might be easy to make.