Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical, and Religious Issues

ISBN: 9781316649671 出版年：2014 页码：258 R Paul Thompson Denis Walsh Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology Francisco Ayala Part I. Evolution and Theology: 2. Evolutionary theory, causal completeness, and theism - the case of 'guided' mutation Elliott Sober 3. Religion, truth and progress Philip Kitcher Part II. Taxonomy and Systematics: 4. Consilience, historicity, and the species problem Marc Ereshefsky 5. DNA barcoding and taxonomic practice David Castle Part III. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: 6. Darwin's theory and the value of mathematical formalisation R. Paul Thompson 7. Population genetics, economic theory, and eugenics in R. A. Fisher Jean Gayon 8. Exploring development and evolution on the tangled bank Jane Maienschein and Manfred Laubichler Part IV. Function, Adaptation and Design: 9. Darwin's cyclopean architect John Beatty 10. Function and teleology Denis Walsh 11. How physics fakes design Alex Rosenberg.