Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference

Sober, Elliott

ISBN 10: 026219273X / ISBN 13: 9780262192736

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1988

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An ex-library copy in original blue cloth, with the usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little wear to the covers. No dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 054730

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, ...

Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge MA

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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.