Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

by Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Kaplan, Jonathan Kaplan

Book Overview

Making 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226668371
• ISBN13: 9780226668376
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"