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A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?

Edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavlicev and Christophe Pélabon

ISBN: 9780262545624

Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.

Efficient Cognition

The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

by Armin W. Schulz

ISBN: 9780262546737

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.

Rethinking Human Evolution

Edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz

ISBN: 9780262546744

Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.

Imperfection

A Natural History

by Telmo Pievani

Translated by Michael Gerard Kenyon

Foreword by Ian Tattersall

ISBN: 9780262047418

In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.

The Evolution of Agency

Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

by Michael Tomasello

ISBN: 9780262047005

A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency.

Multicellularity

Origins and Evolution

Edited by Karl J. Niklas and Stuart A. Newman

Foreword by John T. Bonner

ISBN: 9780262545853

Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.