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.Contributors:Robin O. Andreasen, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Baum,                  John H. Beatty, David J. Buller, Leda Cosmides, James Donoghue, Steven J. Farris,                  Joseph Felsenstein, Susan K. Finsen, Joseph Fracchia, Stephen Jay Gould, Sarah                  Blaffer Hrdy, David L. Hull, Philip Kitcher, R. C. Lewontin, Elisabeth Lloyd, Ernst                  Mayr, Michael Ruse, John Maynard Smith, Elliott Sober, John Tooby, C. Kenneth                  Waters, George C. Williams, David Sloan Wilson, E. O. Wilson

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