Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology third edition

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process evolutionary psychology laws in evolutionary theory and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness units of selection adaptationism reductionism essentialism species phylogenetic inference cultural evolution and evolutionary ethics.Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand. For example the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that questions its main tenets. One sign that a discipline is growing is that there are open questions with multiple answers still in competition; the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biology are living growing disciplines.ContributorsRobin O. Andreasen Kwame Anthony Appiah David A. Baum John H. Beatty David J. Buller Leda Cosmides James Donoghue Steven J. Farris Joseph Felsenstein Susan K. Finsen Joseph Fracchia Stephen Jay Gould Sarah Blaffer Hrdy David L. Hull Philip Kitcher R. C. Lewontin Elisabeth Lloyd Ernst Mayr Michael Ruse John Maynard Smith Elliott Sober John Tooby C. Kenneth Waters George C. Williams David Sloan Wilson E. O. Wilson