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By focusing on the crucial role of environment in the process of adaptation, Robert Brandon clarifies definitions and principles so as to help make the argument of evolution by natural selection empirically testable. He proposes that natural selection is the process of differential reproduction resulting from differential adaptedness to a common selective environment.
Originally published in 1990.
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About the Author
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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"Brandon's book is useful because it focuses on natural selection and adaptation, two concepts central to evolutionary and ecologic studies.... He is genuinely interested in how these concepts can be used to understand evolution, and, more importantly, explain the phenomena we observe in our organisms." (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
"Throughout this book, Brandon sustains an in-depth reflection on the concepts associated with this fundamental theory of evolutionary biology.... Brandon...
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0691001529
- ISBN 13 9780691001524
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages226
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