Genes, Organisms, Populations: Controversies over the Units of Selection - Hardcover
Natural selection and the controversial issues over the units of selection are the subject of these seventeen essays which are grouped in sections that focus on the history of the topic, discuss the levels and units of selection, and present kin, group, and hierarchical models of selection.Undergraduates and graduate students in philosophy and biology will find the anthology particularly useful in its coverage of the roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreedings, and selection in evolution, artifact, cause-and genie selection, replicators and vehicles, innate social aptitudes of man, and individual selection and the concept of structured denies.A Bradford Book.
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Robert Brandon is Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the coeditor of Genes, Organisms, Populations: Controversies over the Units of Selection (MIT Press, 1984).
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Let me state unequivocally that I think that this anthology is a first-rate idea and that generally speaking, I am highly impressed with the selection of readings.... I think that the book will be of great interest to philosophers of science generally, particularly given that at the moment the biological sciences are getting a higher and higher profile and interest in the philosophical community. Also, I think a great many biologists would find the collection of some interest, particularly the evolutionists and taxonomists.―Michael Ruse, University of Guelph (Endorsement)
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- PublisherBradford Books
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0262022052
- ISBN 13 9780262022057
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages300
- EditorBrandon Robert N.
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