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Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology - Softcover

Pigliucci, Massimo; Kaplan, Jonathan

 
9780226668376: Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226668371 ISBN 13: 9780226668376
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of “selection,” while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition.

Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and presenting alternate theoretical interpretations that alleviate this incompatibility, Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan intertwine scientific and philosophical analysis to produce a coherent picture of evolutionary biology. Innovative and controversial, Making Sense of Evolution encourages further development of the Modern Synthesis and outlines what might be necessary for the continued refinement of this evolving field.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Massimo Pigliucci is associate professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University. Jonathan Kaplan is assistant professor of philosophy at Oregon State University.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226668371
ISBN 13 
9780226668376
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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