Adaptationism and Optimality Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) - Softcover

Orzack, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521598362 ISBN 13: 9780521598361

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Adaptationism and Optimality combines contributions from biologists and philosophers, and offers a systematic treatment of foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues surrounding the theory of adaptationism. It presents an up-to-date view of adaptationism and reflects the dramatic changes in our understanding of evolution that have occurred in the last twenty years.

Über diesen Titel

Biografía del autor:

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and William F. Vilas Research Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has taught since 1974. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection - Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (1984), Reconstructing the Past - Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Philosophy of Biology (1993), From a Biological Point of View - Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (1994), and Unto Others - The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998), coauthored with David Sloan Wilson.

Product Description:

Book by None

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521598362
• ISBN 13: 9780521598361
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424