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philosophy/evolutionary biology
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
third edition
edited by elliott sober
These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the
theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology
has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women
in the evolutionary process,evolutionary psychology,laws in evolutionary theory,and race as
social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adap-
tationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, ic inference, cultural evolution, and
evolutionary ethics.
Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the
subject at hand. For example,the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two
founders of the field and another that questions its main s. One sign that a discipline is
growing is that there are open questions,with multiple answers still petition;the essays
in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biol-
ogy are living, growing disciplines.
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor of Phi- Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
losophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Nature of Selection third edition
(MIT Press, 1984), Reconstructing the Past (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy of Biology, and, with
David , Unto Others:The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. edited by elliott sober
a bradford book third edition
The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 Sober, editor
978-0-262-69338-7 | 0-262-69338-0
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
Conceptual Issues in Evolu