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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
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Introduction Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology -
Chapter 1 Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology -
Chapter 2 Chance and Chances in Darwin’s Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today -
Chapter 3 Chance in the Modern Synthesis -
Chapter 4 Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution -
Chapter 5 Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? -
Chapter 6 The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift -
Chapter 7 Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations -
Chapter 8 Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? -
Chapter 9 Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone -
Chapter 10 History’s Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency -
Chapter 11 Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms -
Chapter 12 Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation - References
- Contributors
- Index
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- Chance in Evolution
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- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology -
Chapter 1 Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology -
Chapter 2 Chance and Chances in Darwin’s Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today -
Chapter 3 Chance in the Modern Synthesis -
Chapter 4 Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution -
Chapter 5 Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? -
Chapter 6 The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift -
Chapter 7 Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations -
Chapter 8 Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? -
Chapter 9 Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone -
Chapter 10 History’s Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency -
Chapter 11 Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms -
Chapter 12 Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation - References
- Contributors
- Index
