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Chance in evolution / edited by Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence.
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English
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016
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vi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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QH360.5 .C474 2016
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Evolution (Biology)
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Chance
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Ramsey, Grant, 1972-
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Pence, Charles H.
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"Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing together biologists, philosophers of science, and historians of science, Chance in Evolution is the first book to untangle the far-reaching effects of chance, contingency, and randomness on the evolution of life. The book begins by placing chance in historical context, starting with the ancients and moving through Darwin and his contemporaries, documenting how the understanding of chance changed as Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection developed into the modern synthesis, and how the acceptance of chance in Darwinian theory affected theological resistance to it. Subsequent chapters detail the role of chance in contemporary evolutionary theory - in particular, in connection with the concepts of genetic drift, mutation, and parallel evolution - as well as recent empirical work in the experimental evolution of microbes and in paleobiology. By engaging in collaboration across biology, history, philosophy, and theology, this book offers a comprehensive and synthetic overview both of the history of chance in evolution and of our current best understanding of the impact of chance on life on earth."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : chance in evolution from Darwin to contemporary biology / Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence
Contingency, chance, and randomness in ancient, medieval, and modern biology / David J. Depew
Chance and chances in Darwin's early theorizing and in Darwinian theory today / Jonathan Hodge
Chance in the modern synthesis / Anya Plutynski, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Lucas John Matthews, and Daniel Molter
Is it providential, by chance? : Christian objections to the role of chance in Darwinian evolution / J. Matthew Ashley
Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance? / Michael Ruse
The reference class problem in evolutionary biology : distinguishing selection from drift / Michael Strevens
Weak randomness at the origin of biological variation : the case of genetic mutations / Francesca Merlin
Parallel evolution : what does it (not) tell us and why is it (still) interesting? / Thomas Lenormand, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Thomas Battaillon
Contingent evolution : not by chance alone / Eric Desjardins
History's windings in a flask : microbial experiments into evolutionary contingency / Zachary D. Blount
Rolling the dice twice : evolving reconstructed ancient proteins in extant organisms / Betul Kacar
Wonderful life revisited : chance and contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation / Douglas H. Erwin.
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ISBN
9780226401744 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
022640174X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
9780226401881 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
022640188X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016009805
OCLC
944014134
Other standard number
40026637487
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