『Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology』

Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan

(2006年10月刊行,The University of Chicago Press, ISBN:0226668363 [hbk] / ISBN:0226668371 [pbk])



【目次】
Acknowledgments vii
Prelude - Evolutionary Biology and Conceptual Analysis 1
1. Natural Selection and Fitness: After the "Force" Metaphor 13
2. How (Not) to Measure Natural Selection 36
3. The Targets and Units of Selection: Individual Events and Population Dynamics 64
4. Studying Constraints through G-Matrices: Is Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Looking in Vain for the Holy Grail? 88
5. A Quarter Century of Spandrels: Adaptations, Adaptationisms, and Constraints in Biology 112
6. Functions and For-ness in Biology 130
7. Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations 150
8. Slippery Landscapes: The Promises and Limits of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor in Evolutionary Biology 175
9. Species as Family Resemblance Concepts: The (Dis-)Solution of the Species Problem? 207
10. Testing Biological Hypotheses: The Detective versus the Statistician 227
Coda - A Philosophical Dialogue 263
References 273
Index 293