Volume 24, Issue 2 | Biology & Philosophy

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Volume 24, Issue 2

March 2009

Spandrels and Adaptationism: Marking Thirty Years of Controversy

Issue Editor:

Patrick Forber

8 articles in this issue

Introduction: A Primer on Adaptationism
Patrick Forber
OriginalPaper 23 December 2008 Pages: 155 - 159
Seven types of adaptationism
Tim Lewens
OriginalPaper 11 November 2008 Pages: 161 - 182
Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world
Angela Potochnik
OriginalPaper 04 November 2008 Pages: 183 - 197
Adaptationism and the adaptive landscape
Jon F. Wilkins
Peter Godfrey-Smith
OriginalPaper 13 December 2008 Pages: 199 - 214
San Marco and evolutionary biology
Alasdair I. Houston
OriginalPaper 06 January 2009 Pages: 215 - 230
Natural selection and history
John Beatty
Eric Cyr Desjardins
OriginalPaper 14 January 2009 Pages: 231 - 246
Spandrels and a pervasive problem of evidence
Patrick Forber
OriginalPaper 25 November 2008 Pages: 247 - 266
How ubiquitous is adaptation? A critique of the epiphenomenist program
Leigh Van Valen
OriginalPaper 05 November 2008 Pages: 267 - 280