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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18380658 Title: Evolutionary progress Author: Matthew H Nitecki Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN/ISSN: 0226586928 9780226586922 0226586936 9780226586939 OCLC:18380658

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Evolutionary progress

Author:	Matthew H Nitecki
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Subjects	Evolution (Biology) Organisms -- Evolution -- Theories Biological Evolution. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Kongress
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Matthew H Nitecki Find more information about:
ISBN:	0226586928 9780226586922 0226586936 9780226586939
OCLC Number:	18380658
Notes:	"This book is the result of the Spring Systematics Symposium held in May, 1987, at the Field Museum in Chicago"--Pref.
Description:	viii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Discerning the criteria for concepts of progress / Matthew H. Nitecki -- Progress in ideas of progress / David L. Hull -- Progress in evolution and meaning of life / William B. Provine -- Can "progress" be defined as a biological concept? / Francisco J. Ayala -- Molecules to men: evolutionary biology and thoughts of progress / Michael Ruse -- The moral foundations of the idea of evolutionary progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the neo-Darwinians / Robert J. Richards -- Orthogenesis and evolution in the nineteenth century / Robert C. Richardson, Thomas C. Kane -- The concept of progress in cultural evolution / Robert C. Dunnell -- Morpho-physiological progress / Adam Urbanek -- Evolutionary progress and levels of selection / John Maynard Smith -- Two constraints on the evolution of complex adaptions and the means of their avoidance / William C. Wimsatt, Jeffrey C. Schank -- Entropy, evolution and progress / E.O. Wiley -- Testing the fossil record for evolutionary progress / David M. Raup -- On replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality / Stephen Jay Gould.
Responsibility:	edited by Matthew H. Nitecki.

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