Evolution and the Levels of Selection
Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection - on which biologists and philosophers have long disagreed - is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.
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Evolution and the Levels of Selection
Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection - on which biologists and philosophers have long disagreed - is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.
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Evolution and the Levels of Selection

Evolution and the Levels of Selection

by Samir Okasha
Evolution and the Levels of Selection

Evolution and the Levels of Selection

by Samir Okasha

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Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection - on which biologists and philosophers have long disagreed - is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199556717
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/15/2009
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy at Bristol University. Before that he taught at the University of York for 3 years, and was a Jacobsen Research Fellow at the London School of Economics for 2 years. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Univeristy of Mexico for 1 year and received his doctorate in 1998 from the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Natural Selection in the Abstract2. Selection at Multiple Levels: Concepts and Methods3. Causality and Multi-level Selection4. Philosophical Issues in the Levels of Selection Debate5. The Gene's Eye View and its Discontents6. The Group Selection Controversy7. Species Selection, Clade Selection and Macroevolution8. Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions
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