RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST: PARSIMONY, EVOLUTION, AND INFERENCE

Sober, Elliott

ISBN 10: 026219273X / ISBN 13: 9780262192736

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988

About this Item

Book is in NF condition with pencil marking to FFE, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with a small closed tear to bottom edge/front cover, light creasing along top edge else bright, intact and whole. ARN 50.03; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST: PARSIMONY, EVOLUTION, AND INFERENCE
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026219273X
• ISBN 13: 9780262192736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Technology

About this title

Synopsis

Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more closely related to chimps than they are to gorillas.

About the Author

Eliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Nature of Selection (MIT Press, 1984), Reconstructing the Past (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy of Biology, and, with David S. Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior.