Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

by Paul E. Griffiths and Kim Sterelny

Book Overview

Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an "essential" human nature, determined at birth or in a distant evolutionary past? What should we conserve--species, ecosystems, or something else?

Informed answers to questions like these, critical to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, require both a knowledge of biology and a philosophical framework within which to make sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226773043
• ISBN13: 9780226773049
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"