文档介绍：Making Sense of Evolution
Making Sense of Evolution
The Conceptual Foundations of
Evolutionary Biology
massimo i and
jonathan kaplan
the university of chicago press
chicago and london
Massimo i is associate professor of ecology and evolution at SUNY Stony Brook. He
is the author of Phenotypic Evolution, Denying Evolution, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Tales of the
Rational: Skeptical Essays about Nature and Science. Jonathan Kaplan is assistant professor of
philosophy at Oregon State University. He is the author of The Limits and Lies of Human
ic Research.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-66836-9 (cloth)
isbn-13: 978-0-226-66837-6 (paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-66836-3 (cloth)
isbn-10: 0-226-66837-1 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
i, Massimo, 1964 –
Making sense of evolution : the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology / Massimo
i and Jonathan Kaplan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-226-66836-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-13: 978-0-226-66837-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-66836-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-66837-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Evolution (Biology) I. Kaplan, Jonathan. II. Title.
2006
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2006011168
᭺ϱ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American
National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ansi -1992.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
prelude Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis 1
one Natural Selection and Fitness 13
after the “force” metaphor
two How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection 36
three The Targets and Units of Selection 64
individual events and population dynamics