Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Adaptation
- 2 Population Genetics
- 3 Units and Levels of Selection
- 4 What’s Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?
- 5 Gene
- 6 Information in Biology
- 7 Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology
- 8 Mechanisms and Models
- 9 Teleology
- 10 Macroevolution, Minimalism, and the Radiation of the Animals
- 11 Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections
- 12 Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology
- 13 Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology
- 14 Neurobiology
- 15 Biological Explanations of Human Sexuality: The Genetic Basis of Sexual Orientation
- 16 Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology
- 17 What Is an ‘Embryo’ and How Do We Know?
- 18 Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- 19 Molecular and Systems Biology and Bioethics
- 20 Ecology
- 21 From Ecological Diversity to Biodiversity
- 22 Biology and Religion
- 23 The Moral Grammar of Narratives in History of Biology: The Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology
- Reference List
- Index
- Series List
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 Adaptation
- 2 Population Genetics
- 3 Units and Levels of Selection
- 4 What’s Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?
- 5 Gene
- 6 Information in Biology
- 7 Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology
- 8 Mechanisms and Models
- 9 Teleology
- 10 Macroevolution, Minimalism, and the Radiation of the Animals
- 11 Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections
- 12 Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology
- 13 Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology
- 14 Neurobiology
- 15 Biological Explanations of Human Sexuality: The Genetic Basis of Sexual Orientation
- 16 Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology
- 17 What Is an ‘Embryo’ and How Do We Know?
- 18 Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- 19 Molecular and Systems Biology and Bioethics
- 20 Ecology
- 21 From Ecological Diversity to Biodiversity
- 22 Biology and Religion
- 23 The Moral Grammar of Narratives in History of Biology: The Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology
- Reference List
- Index
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology , pp. i - xxviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007