Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution Historical and Conceptual Issues
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Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution
Historical and Conceptual Issues
Ciprian Jeler
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Investigates a controversial and overlooked area of the philosophy of evolutionary biology
Debunks the sources of the ambiguity surrounding notion of multilevel selection in the philosophy of biology
Debunks the sources of the ambiguity surrounding notion of multilevel selection in the philosophy of biology
Explores the suspicion that the hierarchical expansion of the notion of selection may alter our general notion of “natural selection” to the point of rendering it questionable or even unrecognizable
Ciprian Jeler is a researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Research – Humanities and Social Sciences of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania. Most of his recent work has been in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology and results of this work have been published in journals such as Biology & Philosophy, Biological Theory and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
| Publication Date: | 22 June 2018 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Pivot |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319786766 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 151 |