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000437312 010__ $$a  2010030409
000437312 020__ $$a9781616142308 (pbk. : alk. paper)
000437312 020__ $$a1616142308 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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000437312 1001_ $$aSober, Elliott.
000437312 24510 $$aDid Darwin write the Origin backwards? :$$bphilosophical essays on Darwin's theory /$$cElliott Sober.
000437312 260__ $$aAmherst, N.Y. :$$bPrometheus Books,$$c2010.
000437312 300__ $$a230 p. :$$bill. ;$$c23 cm.
000437312 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437312 50500 $$gMachine generated contents note:$$g1.1.$$tWhat Is Darwin's Theory? --$$g1.2.$$tCommon Ancestry --$$g1.3.$$tDarwin's Principle --$$g1.4.$$tExceptions to Darwin's Principle --$$g1.5.$$tCausal and Evidential Orderings --$$g1.6.$$tUsing Common Ancestry to Think about Natural Selection --$$g1.7.$$tTree Thinking --$$g2.1.$$tBack to the 60's --$$g2.2.$$tHuman Morality --$$g2.3.$$tThe Honeybee's Barbed Stinger --$$g2.4.$$tThe Risk of Anachronism --$$g2.5.$$tMore on Darwin on Morality --$$g2.6.$$tSterile Workers in the Social Insects --$$g2.7.$$tDarwin's Disagreement with Wallace about Hybrid Sterility --$$g2.8.$$tDarwin's General View of Group Selection --$$g3.1.$$tArbuthnot on "the exact balance that is maintained between the numbers of men and women...that the Species may never fail, nor perish" --$$g3.2.$$tBernoulli on 18/35 --$$g3.3.$$tDeMoivre[ -- ]"if we blind not ourselves with metaphysical dust"
000437312 50500 $$g3.4.$$tDarwin's Argument from Monogamy, and His Retraction --$$g3.5.$$tDüsing's Model[ -- ]Monogamy Drops Out --$$g3.6.$$tFisher and Parental Expenditure --$$g3.7.$$tHamilton[ -- ]Group and Individual Selection --$$g3.8.$$tSex Ratio as a Test Case --$$tAppendix: An Example of Hamiltonian Sex Ratio Evolution in Group with Two Foundresses --$$g4.1.$$tDarwin's Discussions of God --$$g4.2.$$tRefining Methodological Naturalism --$$g4.3.$$tWhy Evolutionary Theory Does Not Rule Out an Intervening God --$$g4.4.$$tShould Scientific Theories Talk Only about What Exists in Nature? --$$g4.5.$$tAre All Claims about the Supernatural Untestable? --$$g4.6.$$tIs Violating Methodological Naturalism a Science-Stopper? --$$g4.7.$$tIf Numbers, Why Not God? --$$g4.8.$$tConcluding Comments --$$g5.1.$$tSecond Thoughts about Cladistic Parsimony and the Test of Adaptive Hypotheses --$$g5.2.$$tMore on Units of Selection --$$g5.3.$$tEvolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macroprobabilities.
000437312 520__ $$aElliott Sober offers a reassessment of a number of aspects of Darwin's arguments in the Origin of Species. The book integrates historical material with contemporary evolutionary ideas.-Samir Okasha, Professor of philosophy of science, University of Bristol. --Book Jacket.
000437312 60010 $$aDarwin, Charles,$$d1809-1882.
000437312 60010 $$aDarwin, Charles,$$d1809-1882.$$tOn the origin of species.
000437312 650_0 $$aEvolution (Biology)$$xPhilosophy.
000437312 650_0 $$aNatural selection$$xPhilosophy.
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