The evolution of Darwinism : selection, adaptation, and progress in evolutionary biology / / Timothy Shanahan.

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 342 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Selection: Darwin and natural selection
  • The group selection controversy
  • For whose good does natural selection work?
  • Part II. Adaptation: Darwin (and others) on biological perfection
  • Adaptation after Darwin
  • Adaptation(ism) and its limits
  • Part III. Progress: Darwin on evolutionary progress
  • Evolutionary progress from Darwin to Dawkins
  • Is evolution progressive?
  • Human physical and mental evolution.