Evolutionary Biology
Limits to Knowledge in Evolutionary Genetics
Editors: Clegg, Michael T., Hecht, Max K., MacIntyre, Ross J. (Eds.)
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After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "Evolutionary Biology." Please visit www.springer.com/11692 for further information.
The nature of science is to work on the boundaries between the known and the unknown. These boundaries shift as new methods are developed and as new concepts are elaborated (e.g., the theory of the gene, or more recently, the coalescence framework in population genetics). These tools allow us to address questions that were previously outside the realm of science, and, as a consequence, the boundary between the knowable and unknowable has shifted. A study of limits should reveal and clarify the boundaries and make sharper the set of questions. This book examines and analyzes these new limits as they are applied to evolutionary biology and population genetics. It does this by framing the analysis within four major classes of problems - establishing the fact of evolution; understanding the evolutionary pathways that led to today's biological world; mechanisms of evolutionary change (e.g., models of social behavior, sexual selection, macro evolution); and, finally, prediction.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Limits to Our Knowledge of Evolution
Pages 3-33
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Limits to Knowledge in Population Genetics
Pages 35-51
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Laws, History, and the Nature of Biological Understanding
Pages 57-72
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Avoiding Paradigm-Based Limits to Knowledge of Evolution
Pages 73-96
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Anticipating Scientific Revolutions in Evolutionary Genetics
Pages 97-111
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Evolutionary Biology
- Book Subtitle
- Limits to Knowledge in Evolutionary Genetics
- Editors
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- Michael T. Clegg
- Max K. Hecht
- Ross J. MacIntyre
- Series Title
- Evolutionary Biology
- Series Volume
- 32
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-4135-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-4135-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-46227-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-6854-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 258
- Topics
