Adaptationism and Optimality

Adaptationism and Optimality
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 0521598362
ISBN-13 : 9780521598361
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Book Synopsis Adaptationism and Optimality by : Steven Hecht Orzack

Download or read book Adaptationism and Optimality written by Steven Hecht Orzack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are intended to provide useful advice to "biologists in the trenches" but also to assess the larger theoretical and conceptual issues that form the basis of the current controversy." "This volume will serve to substantially advance the debate over adaptationism. It will be of interest to biologists, philosophers and historians of biology, anthropologists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists."--BOOK JACKET.


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