Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution (eBook, PDF)

Historical and Conceptual Issues
Redaktion: Jeler, Ciprian

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates a controversial and overlooked area of the philosophy of evolutionary biology Debunks the sources of the ambiguity surrounding notion of multilevel selection in the philosophy of biology

Explores the suspicion that the hierarchical expansion of the notion of selection may alter our general notion of "natural selection" to the point of rendering it questionable or even unrecognizable

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 151
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319786773
• Artikelnr.: 52893239

Autorenporträt

Ciprian Jeler is a researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Research - Humanities and Social Sciences of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iäi, Romania. Most of his recent work has been in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology and results of this work have been published in journals such as Biology & Philosophy, Biological Theory and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Ciprian Jeler.- Part I. Historical issues.- 2. The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory; Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang.- 3. Tales of a failed scientific revolution; Mihail-Valentin Cernea.- 4. Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism; Ryan Ketcham.- Part II. Conceptual issues.- 5. Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness; Ciprian Jeler.- 6. A backward question about multilevel selection; Andreea Esanu.- Index.