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Elisabeth A. Lloyd is Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Biology at Indiana University and an Affiliated Faculty Scholar at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She is the author of The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, and most recently, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution.

Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.

1 The Nature of Darwin's Support for the Theory of Natural Selection 1

2 A Semantic Approach to the Structure of Population Genetics 20

3 Confirmation of Ecological and Evolutionary Models 43

4 Units and Levels of Selection 59

5 Species Selections on Variability with Stephen Jay Gould 84

6 An Open Letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Regarding Their Book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior 95

7 Problems with Pluralism 106

8 Normality and Variation: The Human Genome Project and the Ideal Human Type 133

9 Evolutionary Psychology: The Burdens of Proof 148

10 Objectivity and the Double Standard for Feminist Epistemologies 170

11 Science and Anti-Science: Objectivity and Its Real Enemies 202

12 Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality 255

References 269

Index 297