Science, Politics, and Evolution

by Elisabeth A. Lloyd

Book Overview

This book brings together important essays by the one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the central topics in philosophy of biology, including the structure of evolutionary theory, units of selection, and evolutionary psychology, as well as the Science Wars, feminism and science, and sexuality and objectivity. Lloyd challenges the current evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm and analyzes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521865700
• ISBN13: 9780521865708
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"