Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology: An Anthology

by Elliott Sober

Book Overview

There has been considerable and lively debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the-chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262690845
• ISBN13: 9780262690843
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a classic

This book is both an excellent introduction and thorough treatment of many of the thorniest philosophical and methodological issues in evolutionary biology. It is a must read for anyone who is serious about grappling with the deeper meaning of the study of evolution (i.e. deeper than the relatively simple concern of evolution versus creation).