Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences - Heams, Thomas; Huneman, Philippe; Lecointre, Guillaume; Silberstein, Marc.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Foreword; Jean Gayon -- Introduction; Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein -- Part 1. Concepts: Processes -- Variation; Thomas Heams -- Heredity; Thomas Heams -- Selection; Philippe Huneman -- Adaptation; Philippe Grandcolas -- Function; Armand de Ricqlés -- Part 2. Concepts: Patterns -- Character; Véronique Barriel -- Species; Sarah Samadi and Anouk Barberousse -- Descent (filiation); Guillauem Lecointre -- Life; Stéphane Tirard -- Part 3. Darwinism "At Work" : Philosophy of Science -- Formalising Evolutionary Theory ; Anouk Barberousse -- Continuities and Discontinuities of Variation Mechanisms in On the Origin of Species; Pascal Charbonnat -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Philosophical Issues; Alan C. Love -- Phenotypic plasticity: From microevolution to macroevolution; Antonine Nicoglou -- Darwin and molecular biology; Michel Morange -- Systems biology and evolutionary biology; Pierre-Alain Braillard -- The (in)determinism of biological evolution; where does the stochastic character of evolutionary theory come from? Christophe Malaterre and Francesca Merlin -- Darwin and phylogenetics: past and present; Pascal Tassy -- Telling the story of life; on the use of narrative; Guillaume Lecointre -- Part 4. Darwinism "At Work" : From molecules to eco-systems -- What exactly is Synthetic Biology? Thomas Heams -- Evolutionary developmental biology and its contribution to a new synthetic theory; Guillaume Balavoine -- Behavior and Evolution: crossed glances; Henri Cap -- Sex and evolution: Pierre Henry Gouyon, Damien de Vienne, and Tatiana Girard -- Biological costs of a small stature for Homo sapiens females: new perspectives on stature sexual dimorphism; Priscille Touraille -- Ecology and evolution: Toward a multi-hierarchical connection; Julien DeLord -- The ecological niche: history and recent controversies; Arnaud Pocheville -- Darwin, Evolution, and Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Pierre-Oliver Méthot -- Part 5. Evolution in Other Sciences -- Evolutionary algorithms; Marc Schoenauer -- Artificial evolution of autonomous robots and virtual creatures; Nicolas Bredeche -- Evolutionary Psychology, Adaptation and Design: Stephen M. Downes -- Externalist Evolutionary Cognitive Science; Pierre Poirier and Luc Faucher -- Human Language: An Evolutionary Anomaly; Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Evolution, Society, and Ethics: Social Darwinism versus Evolutionary Ethics; Christine Clavien -- Darwinian Morality: Moral Darwinism; Jérȏme Ravat -- Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: synthesis of different theories; Pierrick Bourrat -- Current Darwinism in Social Science; Christophe Heintz and Nicolas Claidiére -- Evolutionary economics: a specific form of evolution? Eva Debray -- Phylo-Linguistics: Enacting Darwin's Linguistic Image; Mahé Ben Hamed -- Biological functions and semantic content: the teleosemantics; Franҫoise Longy -- Part 6. About Anti-Darwinism -- Evolutionism(s) and creationism(s); Olivier Brosseau and Marc Silberstein -- The theory of evolution in secondary schools: some teaching issues; Corine Fortin.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Biology-Philosophy.; Science education; Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Biology; Science Education