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New. 0813391261. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--236 pages----TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction * 1 What Is Evolutionary Theory? 1 * 1.1 What Is Evolution? 1 1.2 The Place of Evolutionary Theory in Biology 5 1.3 Pattern and Process 7 1.4 Historical Particulars and General Laws 14 1.5 The Causes of Evolution 18 1.6 The Domains of Biology and Physics 22 1.7 Biological Explanations and Physical Explanations 24 * 2 Creationism 27 * 2.1 The Danger of Anachronism 27 2.2 Paley's Watch and the Likelihood Principle 30 2.3 Hume's Critique 33 2.4 Why Natural Selection Isn't a Random Process 36 2.5 Two Kinds of Similarity 38 2.6 The Problem of Predictive Equivalence 42 2.7 Is the Design Hypothesis Unscientific? 46 2.8 The Incompleteness of Science 54 * 3 Fitness 57 * 3.1 An Idealized Life Cycle 57 3.2 The Interpretation of Probability 60 3.3 Two Ways to Find Out About Fitness 67 3.4 The Tautology Problem 69 3.5 Supervenience 73 3.6 Advantageousness and Fitness 77 3.7 Teleology Naturalized 82 * 4 The Units of Selection Problem 88 * 4.1 Hierarchy 88 4.2 Adaptation and Fortuitous Benefit 95 4.3 Decoupling Parts and Wholes 98 4.4 Red Herrings 102 4.5 Examples 106 4.6 Correlation, Cost, and Benefit 110 * 5 Adaptationism 119 * 5.1 What Is Adaptationism? 119 5.2 How Genetics Can Get in the Way 123 5.3 Is Adaptationism Untestable? 128 5.4 The Argument from Complex Traits 129 5.5 If Optimality Models Are Too Easy to Produce, Let's Make Them Harder 131 5.6 Game Theory 136 * 6 Systematics 143 * 6.1 The Death of Essentialism 145 6.2 Individuality and the Species Problem 149 6.3 Three Systematic Philosophies 159 6.4 Internal Coherence 166 6.5 Phylogenetic Inference Based on Overall Similarity 169 6.6 Parsimony and Phylogenetic Inference 173 * 7 Sociobiology and the Extension of Evolutionary Theory 184 * 7.1 Biological Determinism 185 7.2 Does Sociobiology Have an Ideological Function? 194 7.3 Anthropomorphism Versus Linguistic Puritanism 197 7.4 Ethics 202 7.5 Models of Cultural Evolution 208 * References 217 * About the Book and Author 225 * Index 227. --REVIEW: Book News, Inc. : "Sober (Philosophy Dept, U. Of Wisconsin-Madison) introduces developments in the philosophy of biology that have taken place over the past few years. He discusses both lofty theory and implications for such controversial issues as creationism, teleology, nature versus nurture, and sociobiology. In particular he sets out the structure of evolutionary theory, the evidence for it, and the scope of its explanatory significance. No date is mentioned for the first edition. -Book News. --with a bonus offer--
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