Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and science and philosophywere changed forever as a result. The exact nature of the Darwinian process has been controversial ever since, however. Godfrey-Smith draws on new developments in biology, philosophy of science, and other fields to give a new analysis and extension of Darwin's idea. The central concept used is thatof a "Darwinian population," a collection of things with the capacity to undergo change by natural selection. From this starting point, new analyses of the role of genes in evolution, the application of Darwinian ideas to cultural change, and "evolutionary transitions" that produce complex organismsand societies are developed. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection will be essential reading for anyone interested in evolutionary theory | Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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