These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice
of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated.
Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary
theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection,
adaptationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary
ethics.
Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand. For
example, the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that
questions its main tenets. One sign that a discipline is growing is that there are open questions, with multiple
answers still in competition; the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy
of evolutionary biology are living, growing disciplines.