Evolutionary worlds without end /
Diversity and complexity are the hallmarks of living forms. Yet science aims for general causal explanations of its observations. So how can these be reconciled? Is it possible for a science of life to conform to the requirement of a general theory-the type of theory seen in a 'hard' scien...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The Rutherford dictum and its meaning for biology
- Plus ça change
- The expansion of selection theory
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Selection and cultural change
- Further applications of selection theory to aspects of human culture
- Levels of selection.