Evolutionary biology conceptual, ethical, and religious issues
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the l...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42026477*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Human evolution : whence and whither? / Francisco Ayala
- Evolutionary theory, causal completeness, and theism : the case of "guided" mutation / Elliott Sober
- Religion, truth, and progress / Philip Kitcher
- Consilience, historicity, and the species problem / Marc Ereshefsky
- DNA barcoding and taxonomic practice / David Castle
- Darwin's theory and the value of mathematical formalization / R. Paul Thompson
- Population genetics, economic theory, and eugenics in R.A. Fisher / Jean Gayon
- Exploring development and evolution on the tangled bank / Jane Maienschein and Manfred Laubichler
- Darwin's cyclopean architect / John Beatty
- Function and teleology / Denis Walsh
- How physics fakes design / Alex Rosenberg.
