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Evolution
In Peter Machamer Michael Silberstein (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 227–251 (2001)
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This paper is an overview of the philosophy of evolution – past, present, and future. It surveys the following topics: the neutralist/selectionist debate, the adapationist programme and its challenges, sociobiology, contingency, laws of biology, the species category problem, the species taxon problem, the tautology problem, fitness, units of selection.Author's Profile
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