From genes to communities, understanding how diversity is maintained remains a
fundamental question in biology. One challenging to identify, yet potentially ubiquitous …

We propose that the drivers of carcinogenesis lie more in the adaptive changes that are
enabled by local or systemic alterations of tissue architecture than in the genetic changes …

Setting a new agenda for the philosophy of science and for other" science studies"
disciplines, in this book the well-known philosopher Philip Kitcher offers an innovative and …

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by
discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical …

In this provocative contribution to the philosophy of science and mind, Paul E. Griffiths
criticizes contemporary philosophy and psychology of emotion for failing to take in an …

Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent
philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of …

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The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among evolutionary
biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory power coming under attack. In …

The use of multiple means of determination to “triangulate” on the existence and character of
a common phenomenon, object, or result has had a long tradition in science but has seldom …

Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the
philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. In …