Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution: Historical and Conceptual Issues
Author:   Ciprian Jeler
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2018 ed.
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9783319786766


Pages:   151
Publication Date:   22 June 2018
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Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution: Historical and Conceptual Issues


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Author:   Ciprian Jeler
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2018 ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319786766


ISBN 10:   3319786768
Pages:   151
Publication Date:   22 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction; Ciprian Jeler.- Part I. Historical issues.- 2. The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory; Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang.- 3. Tales of a failed scientific revolution; Mihail-Valentin Cernea.- 4. Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd’s Challenge to Genic Pluralism; Ryan Ketcham.- Part II. Conceptual issues.- 5. Price’s hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness; Ciprian Jeler.- 6. A backward question about multilevel selection; Andreea Eşanu.- Index.

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Ciprian Jeler is a researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Research – Humanities and Social Sciences of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania. Most of his recent work has been in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology and results of this work have been published in journals such as Biology & Philosophy, Biological Theory and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

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