具體描述
"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.
著者簡介
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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One Natural Selection and Fitness
13
Two How Not to Measure Natural Selection
36
Three The Targets and Units of Selection
64
Four Studying Constraints through GMatrices
88
Five A Quarter Century of Spandrels
112
Six Functions and Forness in Biology
130
Seven Testing Adaptive Hypotheses
150
Eight Slippery Landscapes
175
Nine Species as Family Resemblance Concepts
207
Ten Testing Biological Hypotheses
227
Coda A Philosophical Dialogue
263
References
273
Index
293
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