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Adaptationism and optimality /

(Number (ISBN

052159166X

(Number (ISBN

0521598362

(Number (ISBN

9780521591669

(Number (ISBN

9780521598361

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b528139

Title Proper

Adaptationism and optimality /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Steven Hecht Orzack, Elliott Sober

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 404 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A likelihood framework for the phylogenetic analysis of adaptation / David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue -- Adaptation, phylogenetic inertia, and the method of controlled comparisons / Steven Hecht Orzack and Elliott Sober -- Optimality and phylogeny: a critique of current thought / Hudson Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman -- Fit of form and function, diversity of life, and procession of life as an evolutionary game / Joel S. Brown -- Optimality and evolutionary stability under short-term and long-term selection / Ilan Eshel and Marcus W. Feldman -- Selective regime and fig wasp sex ratios: toward sorting rigor from pseudo-rigor in tests of adaptation / Edward Allen Herre, Carlos A. Machado, and Stuart A. West -- Is optimality over the hill? The fitness landscapes of idealized organisms / George W. Gilchrist and Joel G. Kingsolver -- Adaptation, optimality, and the meaning of phenotypic variation in natural populations / Kenneth J. Halama and David N. Reznick -- Adaptationism, optimality models, and tests of adaptive scenarios / Peter Abrams -- Adaptation and development: on the lack of common ground / Ron Amundson -- Three kinds of adaptationism / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Adaptation, adaptationism, and optimality / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr

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"The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. Adaptationism and Optimality presents an up-to-date view of this controversy and reflects the dramatic changes in our understanding of evolution that have occurred in the past 20 years. The volume combines contributions from biologists and philosophers and offers a systematic treatment of foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues. The essays examine recent developments in topics such as phylogenetic analysis, the theory of optimality and ESS models, and the methodology of hypothesis testing in evolutionary biology. The contributors' disagreement on fundamental aspects of this subject represents the diversity of opinion that makes this controversy so highly charged

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These essays are intended to provide useful advice to "biologists in the trenches" but also to assess the larger theoretical and conceptual issues that form the basis of the current controversy." "This volume will serve to substantially advance the debate over adaptationism. It will be of interest to biologists, philosophers and historians of biology, anthropologists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists."--Jacket

Adaptation (Biology)

Adaptatie (fysiologie, biologie)

Evolutietheorie

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Orzack, Steven Hecht

Sober, Elliott

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20160712065954.0

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