Not by Design : Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker.

Not by Design : Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker.

Charles Darwin described natural selection in two ways: devoid of purpose or direction and as a teleological agent sorting through heritable variation. Evolutionary biologists today repeat Darwin's divergent rhetoric. In this fine book, John Reiss helps us to rid all teleology from evolutionary...

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Main Author: Reiss, John O., 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Cuvier, Georges, > baron, > 1769-1832.
Cuvier, Georges, > baron, > 1769-1832
Natural selection.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionary genetics.
Intelligent design (Teleology)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Evolutionary genetics
Natural selection
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA; 1. The Problem; 2. Philosophical Background; PART TWO: HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS?; 3. Design versus the Epicurean Hypothesis; 4. Materialism, Teleology, and Evolution in the Enlightenment; 5. Cuvier and the Principle of the Conditions for Existence; 6. Darwin, Natural Theology, and the Principle of Natural Selection; PART THREE: EVOLUTION IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS; 7. Existence and the Mathematics of Selection; 8. Population Growth, Genetic Load, and the Limits of Selection; 9. Natural Selection and Genetic Drift.
  • PART FOUR: THE CONDITIONS FOR EXISTENCE AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY10. Adaptedness, Natural Selection, and the Conditions for Existence; 11. How to Talk about Macroevolution; 12. The Conditions for Existence as a Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology; Conclusion; Epilogue; Glossary; References; Index.

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