Chance in evolution /
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : chance in evolution from Darwin to contemporary biology / Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence
- Contingency, chance, and randomness in ancient, medieval, and modern biology / David J. Depew
- Chance and chances in Darwin's early theorizing and in Darwinian theory today / Jonathan Hodge
- Chance in the modern synthesis / Anya Plutynski, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Lucas John Matthews, and Daniel Molter
- Is it providential, by chance? : Christian objections to the role of chance in Darwinian evolution / J. Matthew Ashley
- Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance? / Michael Ruse
- The reference class problem in evolutionary biology : distinguishing selection from drift / Michael Strevens
- Weak randomness at the origin of biological variation : the case of genetic mutations / Francesca Merlin
- Parallel evolution : what does it (not) tell us and why is it (still) interesting? / Thomas Lenormand, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Thomas Battaillon
- Contingent evolution : not by chance alone / Eric Desjardins
- History's windings in a flask : microbial experiments into evolutionary contingency / Zachary D. Blount
- Rolling the dice twice : evolving reconstructed ancient proteins in extant organisms / Betul Kacar
- Wonderful life revisited : chance and contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation / Douglas H. Erwin.