A companion to the philosophy of biology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
39. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Gene concepts
- Biological information
- Heredity and heritability
- Genomics, proteomics, and beyond
- Part II. Evolution
- Darwinsim and Neo-Darwinism
- Systematics and taxonomy
- Population genetics
- The units and levels of selection
- Molecular evolution
- Speciation and marcoevolution
- Adaptationism
- Part III. Developmental Biology
- Phenotypic plasticity and reaction norms
- Explaining the ontogeny of form: philosophical issues
- Development and evolution
- Part IV. Medicine
- Self and nonself
- Health and disease
- Part V. Ecology
- Population ecology
- Complexity, diversity, and stability
- Ecosystems
- Biodiversity: its meaning and value
- Part VI. Mind and Behavior
- Ethology, ociobiology, and evolutionary psychology
- Cooperation
- Language and evolution
- Part VII. Experimentation, Theory, and Themes
- What is life?
- Experimentation
- Laws and theories
- Models
- Function and teleology
- Reductionism in biology.