The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities

by Elliott Sober

Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other important topics are used in evolutionary biology that raise interesting philosophical questions. In this book, Elliott Sober analyses a much larger range of topics, including fitness, altruism, common ancestry, chance, taxonomy, phylogenetic inference, operationalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009376055
• ISBN13: 9781009376051
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"