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Tables of Contents for Sex and Death
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Part I Introduction
1
52
Theory Really Matters: Philosophy of Biology and Social Issues
The Science of Life Itself
3
4
Is There an Essential Human Nature?
7
3
Is Genuine Altruism Possible?
10
3
Are Human Beings Programmed by Their Genes?
13
4
Biology and the Pre-emption of Social Science
17
2
What Should Conservationists Conserve?
19
3
The Received View of Evolution
The Diversity of Life
22
9
Evolution and Natural Selection
31
7
The Received View and Its Challenges
38
15
Part II Genes, Molecules, and Organisms
53
96
The Gene's Eye View of Evolution
Replicators and Interactors
55
6
The Special Status of Replicators
61
5
The Bookkeeping Argument
66
4
The Extended Phenotype
70
7
The Organism Strikes Back
What Is a Gene?
77
5
Genes Are Active Germ Line Replacators
82
5
Genes Are Difference Makers
87
7
The Developmental Systems Alternative
Gene Selectionism and Development
94
1
Epigenetic Inheritance and Beyond
95
2
The Interactionist Consensus
97
3
Information in Development
100
6
Other Grounds for Privileging Genes
106
1
Developmental Systems and Extended Replicators
107
2
One True Story?
109
3
Mendel and Molecules
How Theories Relate: Displacement, Incorporation, and Integration
112
9
What Is Mendelian Genetics?
121
3
Molecular Genetics: Transcription and Translation
124
4
Gene Regulation
128
4
Are Genes Protein Makers?
132
5
Reduction: For and Against
The Antireductionist Consensus
137
2
Reduction by Degrees?
139
2
Are Gene DNA Sequences Plus Contexts?
141
1
The Reductionist Anticonsensus
142
7
Part III Organisms, Groups, and Species
149
66
Organisms, Groups, and Superorganisms
Interactors
151
2
The Challenge of Altruism
153
3
Group Selection: Take 1
156
4
Group Selection: Take 2
160
6
Population-Structured Evolution
166
6
Organisms and Superorganisms
172
8
Species
Are Species Real?
180
4
The Nature of Species
184
10
The One True Tree of Life
194
7
Species Selection
201
14
Part IV Evolutionary Explanations
215
96
Adaptation, Perfection, Function
Adaptation
217
3
Function
220
4
The Attack on Adaptationism
224
2
What Is Adaptationism?
226
2
Structuralism and the Bauplan
228
6
Optimality and Falsifiability
234
7
Adaptation and the Comparative Method
241
12
Adaptation, Ecology, and the Enviorment
The Received View in Ecology
253
5
History and Theory in Ecology
258
8
The Balance of Nature
266
2
Niches and Organisms
268
4
Reconstructing Niches
272
4
Unfinished Business
276
4
Life on Earth: The Big Picture
The Arrow of Time and the Ladder of Progress
280
7
Gould's Challenge
287
4
What Is Disparity?
291
5
Contingency and Its Consequences
296
6
Mass Extinction and the History of Life
302
4
Conclusions
306
5
Part V Evolution and Human Nature
311
44
From Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology
1975 and All That
313
5
The Wilson Program
318
3
From Darwinian Behaviorism to Darwinian Psychology
321
3
Evolutionary Psychology and Its Promise
324
4
Evolutionary Psychology and Its Problems
328
4
Memes and Cultural Evolution
332
5
A Case Study: Evolutionary Theories of Emotion
Darwin on the Emotions
337
4
Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology on the Emotions
341
3
The Modular Emotions
344
4
Beyond the Modular Emotions
348
4
Emotion, Evolution, and Evolved Psychology
352
3
Part VI Concluding Thoughts
355
24
What Is Life?
Defining Life
357
7
Universal Biology
364
6
Simulation and Emergence
370
9
Final Thoughts
379
4
Glossary
383
8
References
391
32
Index
423