Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.