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  • Darwinizing Gaia

    Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution

    Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    A reinterpretation of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory problematic. ... Read more

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  • Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?

    Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Series series Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
    By investigating a simple question, a philosopher of science and a molecular biologist offer an accessible understanding of microbial communities and a motivating theory for future research in community ecology.Microorganisms, such as bacteria, are important determinants of health at the individual, ecosystem, and global levels. And yet many aspects of modern life, from the overuse of antibiotics ... Read more

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    The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

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  • The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

    The Long Reach of the Gene

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  • How Life Works

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  • Complexity : A Guided Tour

    What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive ... Read more

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  • Chance in Evolution

    This illuminating volume explores the effects of chance on evolution, covering diverse perspectives from scientists, philosophers, and historians.The evolution of species, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing ... Read more

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  • Biology Under the Influence

    Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the ... Read more

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  • The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

    The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism ... Read more

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  • Everything Evolves

    Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

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  • Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis

    More than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. He argues that there remains "an irresistible consilience of evidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force of evolution." From the origin of life to the ... Read more

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