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Posted by on Aug 12, 2019 | 0 comments

Our book Evolutionary Causation has arrived! It not only looks great, but it also features some really original and exciting ideas by fantastic people. Thanks to all the authors and to the KLI and the MIT Press for making it happen.

Interested in the content? Here is a list of titles and authors:

1 Evolutionary Causation
Tobias Uller and Kevin N. Laland

2 Causality and the Role of Philosophy of Science
Massimo Pigliucci
3 Understanding Bias in the Introduction of Variation as an Evolutionary Cause
Arlin Stoltzfus

4 The Shape of Things to Come: Evo Devo Perspectives on Causes and Consequences in Evolution
Armin P. Moczek

5 Incorporating the Environmentally Sensitive Phenotype into Evolutionary Thinking
David I. Dayan, Melissa A. Graham, John A. Baker, and Susan A. Foster

 6 Genotype-Environment Interaction and the Unscripted Reaction Norm
Sonia E. Sultan

 7 Understanding Niche Construction as an Evolutionary Process
Kevin N. Laland, John Odling-Smee, and Marcus W. Feldman

 8 Biological Dynamics and Evolutionary Causation
Renée A. Duckworth

 9 The Causes of a Major Transition: How Social Insects Traverse Darwinian Space
Heikki Helanterä and Tobias Uller

 10 Are Developmental Plasticity, Niche Construction, and Extended Inheritance Necessary for Evolution by Natural Selection? The Role of Active Phenotypes in the Minimal Criteria for Darwinian Individuality
Richard A. Watson and Christoph Thies

 11 The Paradox of Population Thinking: First-Order Causes and Higher-Order Effects
Denis M. Walsh

 12 Ontology, Causality, and Methodology of Evolutionary Research Programs
Jun Otsuka

 13 A Darwinian Dream: On Time, Levels, and Processes in Evolution
Arnaud Pocheville

 14 Decoupling, Commingling, and the Evolutionary Significance of Experiential Niche Construction
Lynn Chiu

 15 Biological Information in Developmental and Evolutionary Systems
Karola Stotz

 

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