The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions

Contents
List of Contributors
One. The Theory of Evolution / David P. Mindell and Samuel M. Scheiner
Part I: Overarching Issues
	Two. Historicizing the Synthesis: Critical Insights and Pivotal Moments in the Long History of Evolutionary Theory / Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
	Three. Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Risky Inferences of Process from Pattern / Patrick Forber
	Four. Modeling Evolutionary Theories / Patrick C. Phillips
	Five. Traits and Homology / James O. McInerney
	Six. The Nature of Species in Evolution / Marco J. Nathan and Joel Cracraft
	Seven. The Tree of Life and the Episodic Evolutionary Synthesis / Maureen Kearney
	Eight. Situating Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Evolutionary Theory / Alan C. Love
Part II: Constitutive Theories
	Nine. The Inductive Theory of Natural Selection / Steven A. Frank and Gordon A. Fox
	Ten. The Theory of Multilevel Selection / Charles Goodnight
	Eleven. The Demography of Fitness: Life Histories and Their Evolution / Gordon A. Fox and Samuel M. Scheiner
	Twelve. The Theory of Ecological Specialization / Timothée Poisot
	Thirteen. The Theory of the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity / Samuel M. Scheiner
	Fourteen. The Evolution of Sex / Maria E. Orive
	Fifteen. Speciation / Scott V. Edwards, Robin Hopkins, and James Mallet
	Sixteen. The Theory of Evolutionary Biogeography / Rosemary G. Gillespie, Jun Y. Lim, and Andrew J. Rominger
	Seventeen. Macroevolutionary Theory / David Jablonski
References
Index