Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction
Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth A. Lloyd

ADAPTATION: Historical Perspectives
Richard M. Burian

ADAPTATION: Current Usages
Mary Jane West-Eberhard

ALTRUISM: Theoretical Contexts
Alexander Rosenberg

ALTRUISM: Contemporary Debates
David Sloan Wilson and Lee A. Dugatkin

ALTRUISM: Some Theoretical Ambiguities
Marcy K. Uyenoyama and Marcus W. Feldman

CHARACTER: Historical Perspectives
Lindley Darden

CHARACTER: Current Usages
Kurt Fristrup

COMMUNITY
Peter Taylor

COMPETITION: Historical Perspectives
Robert McIntosh

COMPETITION: Current Usages
Evelyn Fox Keller

DARWINISM
Michael Ruse

ENVIRONMENT
Robert N. Brandon

EPISTASIS
Michael J. Wade

EUGENICS
Daniel J. Kevles

EVOLUTION
Robert J. Richards

EXTINCTION
John Damuth

FITNESS: Historical Perspectives
Diane Paul

FITNESS: Theoretical Contexts
John Beatty

FITNESS: Reproductive Ambiguities
Evelyn Fox Keller

GENE: Historical Perspectives
Jane Maienschein

GENE: Current Usages
Philip Kitcher

GENETIC LOAD
James F. Crow

GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE
Richard C. Lewontin

GROUP SELECTION
David Sloan Wilson

HERITABILITY: Historical Perspectives
Michael J. Wade

HERITABILITY: Some Theoretical Ambiguities
Marcus W. Feldman

HETEROCHRONY
Stephen Jay Gould

HETEROSIS
Diane Paul

HOMOLOGY
Michael J. Donoghue

INDIVIDUAL
David L. Hull

LAMARCKISM
Peter J. Bowler

MACROMUTATION
Michael R. Dietrich

MONOPHYLY
Elliott Sober

MUTUALISM AND COOPERATION
Douglas H. Boucher

NATURAL SELECTION: Historical Perspectives
M. J. S. Hodge

NATURAL SELECTION: Current Usages
John A. Endler

NEUTRALISM
Motoo Kimura

NICHE: Historical Perspectives
James R. Griesemer

NICHE: A Bifurcation in the Conceptual Lineage of the Term
Robert K. Colwell

PARSIMONY
Elliott Sober

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY
Deborah M. Gordon

PROGRESS
Richard Dawkins

RANDOM DRIFT
John Beatty

RESOURCE
Peter Abrams

SEXUAL SELECTION: Historical Perspectives
Helena Cronin

SEXUAL SELECTION: Contemporary Debates
Hamish G. Spencer and Judith C. Masters

SPECIES: Historical Perspectives
Peter F. Stevens

SPECIES: Theoretical Contexts
John Dupré

SPECIES: Current Usages
Mary B. Williams

TELEOLOGY
James G. Lennox

UNIT OF SELECTION
Elisabeth A. Lloyd

References

Index

Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at MIT. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous honorary degrees.

Elisabeth A. Lloyd is Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Biology, Indiana University.

Read More by Evelyn Fox Keller:

• The Century of the Gene
• Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

Read More by Elisabeth A. Lloyd:

• The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution