Description: David L. Hull and Michael Ruse: IntroductionPart I: AdaptationIntroduction to Part I1: Mary Jane West-Eberhard: Adaptation: Current Usages2: Richard Dawkins: Universal Darwinism3: D. C. Dennett: The Leibnizian Paradigm4: Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S. Vrba: . Exaptation - A Missing Term in the Science of Form5: Elliott Sober: Six Sayings About AdaptationismPart II: DevelopmentIntroduction to Part II6: Ron Amundson: Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology7: P. E. Griffiths and R. D. Gray: Developmental Systems and Evolutionary ExplanationPart III: Units of Selection8: Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher: The Return of the Gene9: Robert N. Brandon: The Levels of Selection: A Hierarchy of Interactors10: Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson: A Critical Review of Philosophical Work on the Units of Selection ProblemPart IV: FunctionIntroduction to Part IV11: Ron Amundson: Function Without Purpose: The Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology12: Philip Kitcher: Function and Design13: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Functions: Consensus Without UnityPart V: SpeciesIntroduction to Part V14: Brent D. Mishler and Robert N. Brandon: Individuality, Pluralism, and the Phylogenetic Species Concept15: Kevin de Queiroz and Michael J. Donoghue: Phylogenetic Systematics and the Species Problem16: Marc Ereshefsky: Eliminative PluralismPart VI: Human NatureIntroduction to Part VI17: John Maynard Smith: Science and Myth18: David L. Hull: On Human Nature19: Evelyn Fox Keller: Gender and Science: Origin, History, and Politics20: Susan Oyama: Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little21: Edward Stein: Essentialism and Constructionism about Sexual OrientationPart VII: AltruismIntroduction to Part VII22: Alexander Rosenberg: Altruism: Theoretical Contexts23: Elliott Sober: What Is Evolutionary Altruism?24: David Sloan Wilson: On the Relationship Between Evolutionary and Psychological Definitions of Altruism and SelfishnessPart VIII: Human Genome ProjectIntroduction to Part VIII25: Marga Vicedo: The Human Genome Project: Towards an Analysis of the Empirical, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues Involved26: Philip Kitcher: Who's Afraid of the Human Genome Project?27: Diane B. Paul: Is Human Genetics Disguised Eugenics?28: Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Normality and Variation: The Human Genome Project and the Ideal Human Type29: Alexander Rosenberg: The Human Genome Project: Research Tactics and Economic StrategiesPart IX: ProgressIntroduction to Part IX30: Robert J. Richards: The Moral Foundations of the Idea of Evolutionary Progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians31: Michael Ruse: Evolution and Progress32: Daniel W. McShea: Complexity and Evolution: What Everybody Knows33: Stephen Jay Gould: On Replacing the Idea of Progress with an Operational Notion of DirectionalityPart X: CreationismIntroduction to Part X34: Alvin Plantinga: When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible35: Ernan McMullin: Evolution and Special Creation36: Alvin Plantinga: Reply to McMullinNotes on the ContributorsFurther ReadingIndex

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