Reconstructing the past: parsimony, evolution, and inference

Sober, E.

ISBN 10: 026219273X ISBN 13: 9780262192736

Published by MIT Press, 1998

Language: English

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Reconstructing the past: parsimony, evolution, and inference

Publisher

MIT Press

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

026219273X

ISBN 13

9780262192736

Binding

Hard covers, dust jacket

Edition

1st edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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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.

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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.

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