Science, Politics, and Evolution [Paperback]

This book examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.In this book, Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines central topics in philosophy of biology. Lloyd challenges the current evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm and analyzes them for bias. She analyzes the concept of objectivity and the structure of evolutionary theory and unlocks the puzzle of the units of selection debates into four distinct aspects.In this book, Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines central topics in philosophy of biology. Lloyd challenges the current evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm and analyzes them for bias. She analyzes the concept of objectivity and the structure of evolutionary theory and unlocks the puzzle of the units of selection debates into four distinct aspects.This book brings together important essays by the one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the central topics in philosophy of biology, including the structure of evolutionary theory, units of selection, and evolutionary psychology, as well as the Science Wars, feminism and science, and sexuality and objectivity. Lloyd challenges the current evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm and analyzes them for bias. She also offers an innovative analysis of the concept of objectivity. Lloyd analyzes the structure of evolutionary theory and unlocks the puzzle of the units of selection debates into four distinct aspects, illuminating several mysteries in the biology literature. Central to all essays in this book is the authors abiding concern for evidence and empirical data.1. The nature of Darwin's support for the theory of natural selection; 2. A semantic approach to the structure of population genetics; 3. Confirmation of evolutionary and ecological models; 4. Species selections on variability; 5. An open letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, regarding their book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfisló