Units of Selection

"'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research. This Element presents each of these concepts and demonstrates the necessity of their isolation"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. What is a Unit of Selection and How Can We Identify It? The Disambiguating and the Unitary Projects; 2. How the Expression 'Units of Selection' Acquired Its Polysemic Meaning or Why the Disambiguating Project Started; 3. Two Sources of Misunderstanding in Past and Today's Debates about Units; 4. The Framework of the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: A Challenge to the Disambiguating Project; Conclusion; Glossary; References.

Summary

'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research. This Element presents each of these concepts and demonstrates the necessity of their isolation.

Foreword

'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Lloyd Elisabeth A., Javier (Jagiellonian University Suarez, Javier Suárez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009276412
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927641-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Evolution, Philosophy of Science, Animal behaviour, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Early Man, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ethology and animal behaviour, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution