A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2017; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf
.
2 Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
[chapter]
2007
Handbook of Paleoanthropology
This chapter surveys the philosophical problems raised by the two Darwinian claims of the existence of Tree of Life and the explanatory power of natural selection. It explores the specificity of explanations by natural selection, emphasizing the high context dependency of any process of selection. Some consequences are drawn about the difficulty of those explanations to fit a nomological model of explanation, and the irreducibility of their historic-narrative dimension. The paper introduces
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_2
fatcat:6rqkkdxt6fch3cde3lbzywwewm