عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QH366.2 .P545 2006eb
QH366
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2
.
P545
2006eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226668355
(Number (ISBN
0226668363
(Number (ISBN
9780226668352
(Number (ISBN
9780226668369
Erroneous ISBN
0226668363
Erroneous ISBN
0226668371
Erroneous ISBN
9780226668369
Erroneous ISBN
9780226668376
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b789593
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Making sense of evolution :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology /
First Statement of Responsibility
Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Evolutionary biology and conceptual analysis -- Natural selection and fitness -- How (not) to measure natural selection -- The targets and units of selection -- Studying constraints through G-matrices -- A quarter century of spandrels -- Functions and for-ness in biology -- Testing adaptive hypotheses -- Slippery landscapes -- Species as family resemblance concepts -- Testing biological hypotheses.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories-selection, adaptation, and species-that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of "selection," while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition. Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and pre.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
OverDrive, Inc.
Stock Number
106368BB-134D-478D-A4FF-9F19E9CFF775
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Making sense of evolution.
International Standard Book Number
9780226668376
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Evolution (Biology)
Évolution (Biologie)
Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionaire biologie.
SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Evolution.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
SCI-- 027000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
576
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8
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QH366
.
2
Book number
.
P545
2006eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Pigliucci, Massimo,1964-
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Kaplan, Jonathan Michael.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207030202.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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