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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology »

Authors: Timothy Shanahan
ISBN-13: 9780521541985, ISBN-10: 0521541980
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin's theory of evolution using a historical and philosophical perspective.

	Introduction	1
I	Selection
1	Darwin and Natural Selection	11
2	The Group Selection Controversy	37
3	For Whose Good Does Natural Selection Work?	63
II	Adaptation
4	Darwin (and Others) on Biological Perfection	93
5	Adaptation After Darwin	115
6	Adaptation(ism) and Its Limits	143
III	Progress
7	Darwin on Evolutionary Progress	173
8	Evolutionary Progress from Darwin to Dawkins	196
9	Is Evolution Progressive?	220
10	Human Physical and Mental Evolution	247
	Epilogue	283
App	What Did Darwin Really Believe About Evolutionary Progress?	285
	Notes	295
	References	321
	Index	339