This book presents a collection of linked essays written by one of the leading philosophers of biology, Kim Sterelny, on the topic of biological evolution. The first half of the book explores most of the main theoretical controversies about evolution and selection, while the second half applies some of these ideas in considering cognitive evolution. These essays, some never before published, form a coherent whole that defends not just an overall conception of evolution, but also a distinctive take on cognitive evolution.
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This book presents a collection of linked essays written by one of the leading philosophers of biology, Kim Sterelny, on the topic of biological evolution.The first half of the book explores most of the main theoretical controversies about evolution and selection, while the second half of the book applies some of these ideas in considering cognitive evolution. These essays, some never before published, form a coherent whole that defends not jut an overall conception of evolution, but also a distinctive take on cognitive evolution.
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Earlier work in philosophy of biology focused mostly on understanding the relationship between biology and the more basic sciences of physics and chemistry, and developing more subtle views on the major themes of philosophy of science - reduction, explanation and causation - based on a broader range of scientific practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
environmental complexity hypothesis, burrow genes, water cricket evolution, broad individualism, adaptive phenotypic effects, specific proximal stimulus, allelic environment, broad individualist, explanatory adaptationism, trait group selection, metarepresentation hypothesis, averaging fallacy, great ape clade, warning gene, social intelligence hypothesis, high level vehicles, high level selection, habit machines, genic selectionism, genic selectionists, response breadth, adaptationist hypothesis, outlaw genes, extended phenotypic effects, classical fitness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maynard Smith, Peter Godfrey-Smith, New Zealand, Received View, Developmental Systems Theory, Mayr's Brake, David Hull, Philip Kitcher, Richard Dawkins, Ruth Millikan, The Extended Replicator, Paul Griffiths, Red Queen, World War, Bruce Effect, Elliott Sober, Richard Lewontin, Robert Brandon New!
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Earlier work in philosophy of biology focused mostly on understanding the relationship between biology and the more basic sciences of physics and chemistry, and developing more subtle views on the major themes of philosophy of science - reduction, explanation and causation - based on a broader range of scientific practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
environmental complexity hypothesis, burrow genes, water cricket evolution, broad individualism, adaptive phenotypic effects, specific proximal stimulus, allelic environment, broad individualist, explanatory adaptationism, trait group selection, metarepresentation hypothesis, averaging fallacy, great ape clade, warning gene, social intelligence hypothesis, high level vehicles, high level selection, habit machines, genic selectionism, genic selectionists, response breadth, adaptationist hypothesis, outlaw genes, extended phenotypic effects, classical fitness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maynard Smith, Peter Godfrey-Smith, New Zealand, Received View, Developmental Systems Theory, Mayr's Brake, David Hull, Philip Kitcher, Richard Dawkins, Ruth Millikan, The Extended Replicator, Paul Griffiths, Red Queen, World War, Bruce Effect, Elliott Sober, Richard Lewontin, Robert Brandon New!
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- Keywords in Evolutionary Biology by Evelyn Fox Keller on 5 pages
- The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins on 5 pages
- Cognitive Ethology: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series) by Peter Marler on 4 pages
- Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Peter Godfrey-Smith in Front Matter, page 181, and Back Matter
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins on page 49, page 76, and Back Matter
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- Ecological Paradigms Lost, Volume 2: Routes of Theory Change (Theoretical Ecology Series) by Beatrix Beisner on page 77, and page 329
- Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by William Bechtel in Front Matter
- Minds and Persons (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements) by Anthony O'Hear on page 183
- The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Richard Burian in Front Matter
- The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy) by Marjorie Grene in Back Matter
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