Adaptationism and Optimality

by Steven Hecht Orzack

Book Overview

The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The theory of adaptationism argues that natural selection contains sufficient explanatory power in itself to account for all evolution. However, there are differing views about the efficiency of the adaptation model of explanation. If the adaptationism theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521598362
• ISBN13: 9780521598361
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"