ABSTRACT A common, long‐held belief is that metabolic rate drives the rates of various
biological, ecological and evolutionary processes. Although this metabolic pacemaker view …

▪ Abstract Bacterial systematics has not yet reached a consensus for defining the
fundamental unit of biological diversity, the species. The past half-century of bacterial …

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led
to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over …

The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one
of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too …

It is argued that the problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology, unifying
population biology and ecosystems science, and marrying basic and applied ecology …

The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of
explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical …

Setting a new agenda for the philosophy of science and for other" science studies"
disciplines, in this book the well-known philosopher Philip Kitcher offers an innovative and …

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called" natural selection,"
a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this …

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve
variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well …

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on
whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in …