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Preface. Introduction; P. Griffiths. Section One: Beyond Natural Selection. Models of Cultural Evolution; E. Sober. Punctuated Equilibrium and Macroevolution; K. Sterelny. Margins of Cladistics: Identity, Difference and Place in the Emergence of Phylogenetic Systematics 1864-1975; R. Craw. Section Two: Central Concepts of Evolutionary Theory. Adaptive Explanation and the Concept of a Vestige; P. Griffiths. Selection, Drift and the Aims of Evolutionary Theory; T. Shanahan. Section Three: The Developmental Systems Approach. Death of the Gene: Developmental Systems Strike Back; R. Gray. Ontogeny and Phylogeny: A Case of Metarecapitulation? S. Oyama. Against Ontogeny; J.R. Morss. Index.

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