614 Index
organisms, 141, 183, 184, 192
The Origin of Species, 338, 343
origin essentialism, 115
orthogenesis, 65
orthologous sequences, 290
Owen, R., 8, 432–434, 445
Oxford School of Ecological Genetics,
46
Oyama, S., 189, 190
Packard, N. H., 592
Paley, 6, 9
Paley, W., 362, 527, 530
Palmer, A. R., 193
Pangenes, 252
pangenesis, 19
Papineau, D., 549
parasexual mating, 269
parasitism, 222
parsimony, 345
Darwin’s Principle, 343–345
partial determination (in evolution-
ary dynamics), 503
path analysis, 87, 90–91, 325, 330,
332
path coefficients, 325
peak shifts, 45
Pearl–Verhulst, 517
Pearson, K., 51, 255, 312, 313, 315,
316, 319, 320, 322, 323, 338,
497
penetrance, 264, 285
phase space, 493, 498, 499, 516
pheneticism, 462
phenotype, 193, 256
p. space, 185
accommodation, 192
novelties, 193
plasticity, 192
physicalism, 348, 351, 352, 356, 357,
359, 554,
physiology, 76, 118, 192, 223, 469,
532, 556, 557
Pietrosky, P., 562
Pigliucci, M., 458, 463–471, 474
Pinker, S., 222, 228, 241
plasticity, 167, 192, 194, 195, 196,
582
phenotypic, 167, 169, 172, 192,
195, 514
developmental, 193, 195
adaptive, 193
Plato, 22, 23, 242, 404, 570
pleiotropy, 66, 119, 121, 173, 264, 286,
535, 537
pluralism,
and units of selection, 141, 150,
taxonomic, 411–416
agent and unit, 152
Pollack, J., 590
polyclones, 287
polygamy, 230, 233
polymorphisms,
electrophoretic, 289
Restriction-Fragments-Length-P
(RFLP), 263
single nucleotide p. (SNP), 263
Popper, K., 23, 206
Popperian, 32
population, 181, 317, 318, 320, 321,
323, 325–327, 329, 331
and evolvability, 170–171
structure theory, 410–411
p.-level process, 196
population genetics, 38, 41, 45, 487,
490, 503, 508–510
mathematical, 37
Mayr’s critique, 74–76, 80–82
Waddington’s critique, 73, 76, 80–
82
position effect, 272, 285
potential energy, 365
poverty of stimulus, 573
Precautionary Principle, 600
Prinz, J., 576
prion, 596
process