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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- PREFACE: BEYOND THE DESIGN METAPHOR
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1 The Problem -
2 Philsophical Background -
3 Design versus the Epicurean Hypothesis -
4 Materialism, Teleology, and Evolution in the Enlightenment -
5 Cuvier and the Principle of the Conditions for Existence -
6 Darwin, Natural Theology, and the Principle of Natural Selection -
7 Existence and the Mathematics of Selection -
8 Population Growth, Genetic Load, and the Limits of Selection -
9 Natural Selection and Genetic Drift -
10 Adaptedness, Natural Selection, and the Conditions for Existence -
11 How to Talk about Macroevolution -
12 The Conditions for Existence as a Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology - Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- REFERENCES
- Index
REFERENCES
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- Source:
- Not by Design
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- PREFACE: BEYOND THE DESIGN METAPHOR
-
1 The Problem -
2 Philsophical Background -
3 Design versus the Epicurean Hypothesis -
4 Materialism, Teleology, and Evolution in the Enlightenment -
5 Cuvier and the Principle of the Conditions for Existence -
6 Darwin, Natural Theology, and the Principle of Natural Selection -
7 Existence and the Mathematics of Selection -
8 Population Growth, Genetic Load, and the Limits of Selection -
9 Natural Selection and Genetic Drift -
10 Adaptedness, Natural Selection, and the Conditions for Existence -
11 How to Talk about Macroevolution -
12 The Conditions for Existence as a Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology - Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- REFERENCES
- Index