Understanding Life: Recent Work in Philosophy of Biology

Surveys recent philosophy of biology. Recent critiques of the replicator/vehicle distinction and its application to the idea of the gene as the unit of section. Recent ideas on the role of selection in evolution. General problems in the philosophy.

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