About this title: In science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary language - meanings are multiple, ambiguities ubiquitous "Keywords in Evolutionary Biology" grapples with this problem in a field especially prone to the confusion engendered by semantic imprecision. Written by historians, philosophers, and biologists - including, among others, Stephen Jay Gould, Diane Paul, John Beatty, Robert Richards, Richard Lewontin, David Sloan Wilson, Peter Bowler, and Richard Dawkins - these ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674503120ISBN:0674503120
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. The book itself is in very good condition (tight spine & binding, pages crisp), the DJ does have some light wear to the edges. There is some underlining and markings. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674503120ISBN:0674503120
Description: Gwen Frankfeldt. Brand New in Like New jacket. Reference Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 414 pp. Book is without a blemish. Dj has two tiny cuts (tears) on top of back flap; almost flawless dj. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674503120ISBN:0674503120
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is in excellent shape, tight binding, crisp pages, no highlighing, one inch tear on top of DJ. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 432 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674503137ISBN:0674503139
Description: New. In Science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary language-meanings are multiple, ambiguities ubiquitous. Keywords in Evol... read more
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