Trees of life : essays in philosophy of biology / edited by Paul Griffiths.

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1992], ©1992.

276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Papers from the Philosophical Problems in Evolutionary Biology Conference, held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Aug. 1990

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Houtschild Note: Errata slip pasted in

Beyond natural selection. Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober -- Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution / Kim Sterelny -- Margins of cladistics : identity, difference and place in the emergence of phylogenetic systematics, 1864-1975 / Robin Craw -- Central concepts of evolutionary theory. Adaptive explanation and the concept of a vestige / Paul Griffiths -- Selection, drift, and the aims of evolutionary theory / Timothy Shanahan -- The developmental systems approach. Death of the gene : developmental systems strike back / Russell Gray -- Ontogeny and phylogeny : a case of metarecapitulation? / Susan Oyama -- Against ontogeny / John R. Morss.

Includes bibliographic references and index