Not by design : retiring Darwin's watchmaker / John O. Reiss.

  • Reiss, John O., 1961-
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[2009], ©2009
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xviii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prolegomena -- The problem -- Philosophical background -- How did we get into this mess? : from Socrates and Lucretius to Cuvier and Darwin -- Design versus the Epicurean hypothesis : two thousand years of debate -- Materialism, teleology, and evolution in the Enlightenment -- Cuvier and the principle of the conditions for existence -- Darwin, natural theology, and the principle of natural selection -- Evolution in Mendelian populations : teleology gets mathematical -- Existence and the mathematics of selection : the adaptive landscape versus the fundamental theorem -- Population growth, genetic load, and the limits of selection -- Natural selection and genetic drift : their role in evolutionary change -- The conditions for existence and evolutionary biology -- Adaptedness, natural selection, and the conditions for existence -- How to talk about macroevolution -- The conditions for existence as a unifying concept in evolutionary biology -- Evolutionary biology and intelligent design.

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  • 9780520258938
  • 0520258932