Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary BiologyMaking 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. |
Contents
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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 |
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Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology Massimo Pigliucci,Jonathan Kaplan No preview available - 2006 |
Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology Massimo Pigliucci,Jonathan Kaplan No preview available - 2006 |