... resolve a number of outstanding philosophical debates over
the levels of selection. The ‘additivity criterion’ of Lloyd and Wimsatt
4 Evolution and the Levels of Selection
description of evolutionary ... 203
8. Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions 218
Bibliography 241
Index 257
36 Evolution and the Levels of Selection
wh...
... on the DNA (Fig. 1.14). The polymerase
enzyme then synthesizes the DNA strand next to the primers. The solution
is then heated and cooled in numerous cycles, and the DNA is amplified
over and ... framework of species change and demon-
strate the intimacy of nature and crop evolution.
In the second half of the book, I focus on when and where crops were
dome...
... dangerous idea: the algorithmic level is the level
that best accounts for the speed of the antelope, the wing of the eagle, the
shape of the orchid, the diversity of species, and all the other occasions ... aspirations
to understand these phenomena in the deep ways of
theory. I spoke with Conway once about the creation of the Game of Life,
and h...
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logarithm of 6:
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numbers in the first column. All Anne and Bob needed was
very sim...
... virtue of the attraction of the consumma-
tions but also in virtue of the kind of life and kind of subject that
these desires properly belong to.
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The hermeneutical operation of agency lies in the ... construed.
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In other words, the critical effects of skepticism,
doubt, and the rational ordering of the world (what Max Weber called ‘ the
rationalizatio...
... hand, there has been misconception of the form and meaning of the argu-
ments through importing into them logical and conceptual material foreign to the
author and his times. On the other, there ... with views of the brothers and Hippias as wise and then undermine these.
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their authori...
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... social-imaginative
conceptions of the social identities of those implicated in the particular
operation of power. The rest of Chapter 1 is devoted to presenting
the main idea of the book, in that it characterizes the primary ... Leeds, Oxford, Sussex, and Warwick, at the LSE and Birkbeck
College in the University of London, and at the 2006 annual conference...