LEADER 04434nam 22006255 450 001 9910838253403321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-40191-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226401911 035 $a(CKB)3710000000860837 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4520143 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001578626 035 $a(DE-B1597)523788 035 $a(OCoLC)958654648 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226401911 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000860837 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aChance in Evolution /$fGrant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (368 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-226-40188-X 311 $a0-226-40174-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology -- $t1. Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology -- $t2. Chance and Chances in Darwin's Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today -- $t3. Chance in the Modern Synthesis -- $t4. Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution -- $t5. Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? -- $t6. The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift -- $t7. Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations -- $t8. Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? -- $t9. Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone -- $t10. History's Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency -- $t11. Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms -- $t12. Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation -- $tReferences -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aHumans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing together biologists, philosophers of science, and historians of science, Chance in Evolution is the first book to untangle the far-reaching effects of chance, contingency, and randomness on the evolution of life. The book begins by placing chance in historical context, starting with the ancients and moving through Darwin and his contemporaries, documenting how the understanding of chance changed as Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection developed into the modern synthesis, and how the acceptance of chance in Darwinian theory affected theological resistance to it. Subsequent chapters detail the role of chance in contemporary evolutionary theory-in particular, in connection with the concepts of genetic drift, mutation, and parallel evolution-as well as recent empirical work in the experimental evolution of microbes and in paleobiology. By engaging in collaboration across biology, history, philosophy, and theology, this book offers a comprehensive and synthetic overview both of the history of chance in evolution and of our current best understanding of the impact of chance on life on earth. 606 $aEvolution (Biology)$xPhilosophy 606 $aChance 610 $aCharles Darwin. 610 $achance. 610 $acontingency. 610 $aevolution. 610 $agenetic drift. 610 $ahistory of biology. 610 $amacroevolution. 610 $amutation. 610 $anatural selection. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology)$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aChance. 676 $a576.801 686 $aWH 2100$qBVB$2rvk 702 $aPence$b Charles H., $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aRamsey$b Grant, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838253403321 996 $aChance in Evolution$94144483 997 $aUNINA