Evidence and Evolution

by Elliott Sober

Book Overview

How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Elliott Sober investigates general questions about probability and evidence and shows how the answers he develops to those questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary biology. Drawing on a set...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521692741
• ISBN13: 9780521692748
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"