Book ID: CBB000030923

Trees of life: Essays in philosophy of biology (1992)

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Griffiths, Paul E. (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: vii + 276 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Sober, Elliott: Models of cultural evolution. Sterelny, Kim: Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution. Craw, Robin: Margins of Cladistics: Identity, difference and place in the emergence of phylogenetic systematics, 1864-1975. Griffiths, Paul: Adaptive explanation and the concept of a vestige. Shanahan, Timothy: Selection, drift and the aims of evolutionary theory. Gray, Russell: Death of the gene: Developmental systems strike back. Oyama, Susan: Ontogeny and phylogeny: A case of metarecapitulation? Morss, John R.: Against ontogeny.


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Review Collier, J. (1995) Review of "Trees of life: Essays in philosophy of biology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 174-76). unapi

Review Hull, D.L. (1994) Review of "Trees of life: Essays in philosophy of biology". Biology and Philosophy (pp. 105-12). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Maienschein, Jane A.
Rainger, Ronald
Benson, Keith Rodney
Orth, Karin
Oberkrome, Willi
Zumbach, Clark E.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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Biology and Philosophy
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Nijhoff
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Biology
Evolution
Models and modeling in science
Darwinism
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Darwin, Charles Robert
Kilian, Conrad
Audubon, John James
Catesby, Mark
Bartram, John
Bartram, William
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