Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
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- Mar 26, 2009
- #Philosophy #Evolution
In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this me...
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Number of Pages: 224
ISBN: 0199552045
ISBN-13: 9780199552047
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Feb 4, 2018
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Conventional thinking about evolution takes notions like ‘organism’, ‘heredity’ and ‘reproduction’ for granted. Godfrey-Smith puts these ideas under the microscope. He explores a range of unusual examples, from bacteria to bee colonies, and uses them to show us what really makes natural selection work. This book opens up a fascinating range of new issues in the philosophy of biology.