List of Boxes and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 What is Evolutionary Theory?; 2 Creationism; 3 Fitness; 4 The Units of Selection Problem; 5 Adaptationism; 6 Systematics; 7 Sociobiology and the Extension of Evolutionary Theory; References; Index
Summary
Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the "special" sciences. This drama has centered on evolutionary theory, and in the second edition of this textbook, Elliott Sober introduces the reader to the most important issues of these developments. With a rare combination of technical sophistication and clarity of expression, Sober engages both the higher level of theory and the direct implications for such controversial issues as creationism, teleology, nature ve
