Chance in evolution

by Pence, Charles H. Ramsey, Grant

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Full title :Chance in evolution / edited by Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:[2016].

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Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:[2016].

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

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ISBN:9780226401911, 022640191X
oclc:on1139183799
LC Classification:QH360.5
Dewey Decimal:576.801

Introduction: chance in evolution from Darwin to contemporary biology / Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence -- Part I. The Historical Development and Implications of Chance in Evolution -- 1. Contingency, chance, and randomness in ancient, medieval, and modern biology / David J. Depew -- 2. Chance and chances in Darwin's early theorizing and in Darwinian theory today / Jonathan Hodge -- 3. Chance in the modern synthesis / Anya Plutynski, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Lucas John Matthews, and Daniel Molter -- 4. Is it providential, by chance?: Christian objections to the role of chance in Darwinian evolution / J. Matthew Ashley -- 5. Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance? / Michael Ruse -- Part 2. Chance in the Processes of Evolution -- 6. The reference class problem in evolutionary biology: distinguishing selection from drift / Michael Strevens -- 7. Weak randomness at the origin of biological variation: the case of genetic mutations / Francesca Merlin -- 8. Parallel evolution: what does it (not) tell us and why is it (still) interesting? / Thomas Lenormand, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Thomas Battaillon -- Part 3. Chance and Contingency in the History of Life -- 9. Contingent evol…