Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment

by Robert G.B. Reid

Book Overview

A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.

Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513404
• ISBN13: 9780262513401
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 517 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher