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| Preface | |
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| Theory Really Matters: Philosophy of Biology and Social Issues | |
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| The Science of Life Itself | |
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| Is There an Essential Human Nature? | |
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| Is Genuine Altruism Possible? | |
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| Are Human Beings Programmed by Their Genes? | |
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| Biology and the Pre-emption of Social Science | |
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| What Should Conservationists Conserve? | |
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| The Received View of Evolution | |
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| The Diversity of Life | |
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| Evolution and Natural Selection | |
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| The Received View and Its Challenges | |
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| Genes, Molecules, and Organisms | |
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| The Gene's Eye View of Evolution | |
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| Replicators and Interactors | |
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| The Special Status of Replicators | |
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| The Bookkeeping Argument | |
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| The Extended Phenotype | |
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| The Organisim Strikes Back | |
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| What Is a Gene? | |
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| Genes Are Active Germ Line Replicators | |
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| Genes Are Difference Makers | |
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| The Developmental Systems Alternative | |
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| Gene Selectionism and Development | |
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| Epigenetic Inheritance and Beyond | |
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| The Interactionist Consensus | |
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| Information in Development | |
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| Other Grounds for Privileging Genes | |
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| Developmental Systems and Extended Replicators | |
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| One True Story? | |
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| Mendel and Molecules | |
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| How Theories Relate: Displacement, Incorporation, and Integration | |
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| What Is Mendelian Genetics? | |
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| Molecular Genetics: Transcription and Translation | |
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| Gene Regulation | |
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| Are Genes Protein Makers? | |
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| Reduction: For and Against | |
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| The Antireductionist Consensus | |
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| Reduction by Degrees? | |
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| Are Genes DNA Sequences Plus Contexts? | |
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| The Reductionist Anticonsensus | |
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| Organisms, Groups, and Species | |
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| Organisms, Groups, and Superorganisms | |
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| Interactors | |
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| The Challenge of Altruism | |
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| Group Selection: Take 1 | |
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| Group Selection: Take 2 | |
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| Population-Structured Evolution | |
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| Organisms and Superorganisms | |
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| Species | |
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| Are Species Real? | |
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| The Nature of Species | |
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| The One True Tree of Life | |
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| Species Selection | |
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| Evolutionary Explanations | |
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| Adaptation, Perfection, Function | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Function | |
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| The Attack on Adaptationism | |
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| What Is Adaptationism? | |
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| Structuralism and theBauplan | |
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| Optimality and Falsifiability | |
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| Adaptation and the Comparative Method | |
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| Adaptation, Ecology, and the Environment | |
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| The Received View in Ecology | |
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| History and Theory in Ecology | |
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| The Balance of Nature | |
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| Niches and Organisms | |
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| Reconstructing Niches | |
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| Unfinished Business | |
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| Life on Earth: The Big Picture | |
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| The Arrow of Time and the Ladder of Progress | |
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| Gould's Challenge | |
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| What Is Disparity? | |
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| Contingency and Its Consequences | |
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| Mass Extinction and the History of Life | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Evolution and Human Nature | |
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| From Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| 1975 and All That | |
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| The Wilson Program | |
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| From Darwinian Behaviorism to Darwinian Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Psychology and Its Promise | |
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| Evolutionary Psychology and Its Problems | |
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| Memes and Cultural Evolution | |
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| A Case Study: Evolutionary Theories of Emotion | |
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| Darwin on the Emotions | |
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| Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology on the Emotions | |
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| The Modular Emotions | |
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| Beyond the Modular Emotions | |
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| Emotion, Evolution, and Evolved Psychology | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| What Is Life? | |
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| Defining Life | |
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| Universal Biology | |
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| Simulation and Emergence Final Thoughts | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |