A companion to the philosophy of biology / edited by Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski.

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

xxvi, 589 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Molecular Biology and Genetics -- Gene concepts -- Biological information -- Heredity and heritability -- Genomics, proteomics, and beyond -- Part II. Evolution -- Darwinsim and Neo-Darwinism -- Systematics and taxonomy -- Population genetics -- The units and levels of selection -- Molecular evolution -- Speciation and marcoevolution -- Adaptationism -- Part III. Developmental Biology -- Phenotypic plasticity and reaction norms -- Explaining the ontogeny of form: philosophical issues -- Development and evolution -- Part IV. Medicine -- Self and nonself -- Health and disease -- Part V. Ecology -- Population ecology -- Complexity, diversity, and stability -- Ecosystems -- Biodiversity: its meaning and value -- Part VI. Mind and Behavior -- Ethology, ociobiology, and evolutionary psychology -- Cooperation -- Language and evolution -- Part VII. Experimentation, Theory, and Themes -- What is life? -- Experimentation -- Laws and theories -- Models -- Function and teleology -- Reductionism in biology.