The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution / Richard Dawkins ; with additional research by Yan Wong
| The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution / Richard Dawkins ; with additional research by Yan Wong |
| Autore | Dawkins, Richard, 1941- |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : Phoenix, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xii, 685 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - History
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0753819961 |
| Classificazione | LC QH361.D39 2004 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002284139707536 |
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Beyond evolution [[electronic resource] ] : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear
| Beyond evolution [[electronic resource] ] : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear |
| Autore | O'Hear Anthony |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 220 p |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Philosophical anthropology Evolution Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Human evolution |
| ISBN |
9780191519666
0191519669 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795752703321 |
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Beyond evolution : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear
| Beyond evolution : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear |
| Autore | O'Hear Anthony |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 220 p |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Philosophical anthropology Evolution Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Human evolution |
| ISBN |
9780191519666
0191519669 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Mind and Nature -- 2. Immanent and Transcendent Dimensions of Reason -- 3. Self-Conscious Belief -- 4. Evolutionary Epistemology -- 5. Evolution and Epistemological Pessimism -- 6. Morality and Politics -- 7. Beauty and the Theory of Evolution -- 8. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
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Beyond evolution : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear
| Beyond evolution : human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation / / Anthony O'Hear |
| Autore | O'Hear Anthony |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 220 p |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Philosophical anthropology Evolution Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Human evolution |
| ISBN |
9780191519666
0191519669 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Mind and Nature -- 2. Immanent and Transcendent Dimensions of Reason -- 3. Self-Conscious Belief -- 4. Evolutionary Epistemology -- 5. Evolution and Epistemological Pessimism -- 6. Morality and Politics -- 7. Beauty and the Theory of Evolution -- 8. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
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The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought : roots of evo-devo / Ron Amundson
| The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought : roots of evo-devo / Ron Amundson |
| Autore | Amundson, Ron |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Developmental biology - Philosophy Embryology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9780521806992
0521806992 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002933469707536 |
Amundson, Ron
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober
| Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober |
| Autore | Sober, Elliott |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 506 p. : ill. ; 26 cm |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0262193361 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003451569707536 |
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| Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994 | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober
| Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452053103321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober
| Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777637903321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / / edited by Elliott Sober
| Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / / edited by Elliott Sober |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- I Fitness -- 1 The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness -- 2 The Two Faces of Fitness -- II Units of Selection -- 3 Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection -- 4 Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences -- III Adaptationism -- 5 The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme -- 6 Optimization Theory in Evolution -- IV Women in the Evolutionary Process -- 7 Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female -- 8 Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality -- V Evolutionary Psychology -- 9 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain -- 10 Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique -- VI Laws in Evolutionary Theory -- 11 The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis -- 12 Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology -- VII Reductionism -- 13 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences -- 14 Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won't Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics -- 15 The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism -- VIII Essentialism and Population Thinking -- 16 Typological versus Population Thinking -- 17 Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism -- IX Species -- 18 A Matter of Individuality -- 19 Choosing Among Alternative ''Phylogenetic'' Species Concepts -- X Phylogenetic Inference -- 20 Cases in Which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading -- 21 The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis -- XI Race-Social Construction or Biological Reality? -- 22 Why There Are No Human Races -- 23 A New Perspective on the Race Debate -- XII Cultural Evolution -- 24 Does Culture Evolve? -- 25 Models of Cultural Evolution -- XIII Evolutionary Ethics -- 26 Moral Philosophy as Applied Science.
27 Four Ways of ''Biologicizing'' Ethics -- Index. |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / / edited by Elliott Sober
| Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / / edited by Elliott Sober |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- I Fitness -- 1 The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness -- 2 The Two Faces of Fitness -- II Units of Selection -- 3 Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection -- 4 Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences -- III Adaptationism -- 5 The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme -- 6 Optimization Theory in Evolution -- IV Women in the Evolutionary Process -- 7 Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female -- 8 Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality -- V Evolutionary Psychology -- 9 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain -- 10 Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique -- VI Laws in Evolutionary Theory -- 11 The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis -- 12 Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology -- VII Reductionism -- 13 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences -- 14 Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won't Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics -- 15 The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism -- VIII Essentialism and Population Thinking -- 16 Typological versus Population Thinking -- 17 Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism -- IX Species -- 18 A Matter of Individuality -- 19 Choosing Among Alternative ''Phylogenetic'' Species Concepts -- X Phylogenetic Inference -- 20 Cases in Which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading -- 21 The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis -- XI Race-Social Construction or Biological Reality? -- 22 Why There Are No Human Races -- 23 A New Perspective on the Race Debate -- XII Cultural Evolution -- 24 Does Culture Evolve? -- 25 Models of Cultural Evolution -- XIII Evolutionary Ethics -- 26 Moral Philosophy as Applied Science.
27 Four Ways of ''Biologicizing'' Ethics -- Index. |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
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