| Description |
230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.1. What Is Darwin's Theory? -- 1.2. Common Ancestry -- 1.3. Darwin's Principle -- 1.4. Exceptions to Darwin's Principle -- 1.5. Causal and Evidential Orderings -- 1.6. Using Common Ancestry to Think about Natural Selection -- 1.7. Tree Thinking -- 2.1. Back to the 60's -- 2.2. Human Morality -- 2.3. The Honeybee's Barbed Stinger -- 2.4. The Risk of Anachronism -- 2.5. More on Darwin on Morality -- 2.6. Sterile Workers in the Social Insects -- 2.7. Darwin's Disagreement with Wallace about Hybrid Sterility -- 2.8. Darwin's General View of Group Selection -- 3.1. Arbuthnot on "the exact balance that is maintained between the numbers of men and women...that the Species may never fail, nor perish" -- 3.2. Bernoulli on 18/35 -- 3.3. DeMoivre[ -- ]"if we blind not ourselves with metaphysical dust" |
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3.4. Darwin's Argument from Monogamy, and His Retraction -- 3.5. Dusing's Model[ -- ]Monogamy Drops Out -- 3.6. Fisher and Parental Expenditure -- 3.7. Hamilton[ -- ]Group and Individual Selection -- 3.8. Sex Ratio as a Test Case -- Appendix: An Example of Hamiltonian Sex Ratio Evolution in Group with Two Foundresses -- 4.1. Darwin's Discussions of God -- 4.2. Refining Methodological Naturalism -- 4.3. Why Evolutionary Theory Does Not Rule Out an Intervening God -- 4.4. Should Scientific Theories Talk Only about What Exists in Nature? -- 4.5. Are All Claims about the Supernatural Untestable? -- 4.6. Is Violating Methodological Naturalism a Science-Stopper? -- 4.7. If Numbers, Why Not God? -- 4.8. Concluding Comments -- 5.1. Second Thoughts about Cladistic Parsimony and the Test of Adaptive Hypotheses -- 5.2. More on Units of Selection -- 5.3. Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macroprobabilities. |
| Summary |
In his latest book, Elliott Sober argues that Darwin's theory is best described not as evolution by natural selection but as common ancestry plus natural selection."-John Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. |
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"In these essays, Elliott Sober offers analyses of the logical structure of evolutionary theory, natural selection, and the confrontation between naturalism and creationism."-Douglas J. Futuyma, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University. |
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Elliott Sober offers a reassessment of a number of aspects of Darwin's arguments in the Origin of Species. The book integrates historical material with contemporary evolutionary ideas.-Samir Okasha, Professor of philosophy of science, University of Bristol. --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
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Natural selection -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
9781616142308 |
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1616142308 |
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