Philosophy of Biology

Index 615

Mendelian, 182
population level, 181
Prokaryotes, 263
promoter, 293
protein synthesis, 386–389, 392–394
Provine, W., 54, 71, 76, 79, 504
Pairing-and-Separation process, 354,
356, 357
punctuated equilibrium, 289
Punnett, R. C., 51, 80, 317, 319, 323,
509
Putnam, H., 354, 356, 357, 488

quantum mechanics, 495
quasi-linkage equilibrium, 104
Quine, W. V. O., 213, 214, 491

race,
biological concept of, 455–477
biological reality of, 455, 457, 462,
464, 467, 468, 471, 477
cladistic concept of, 471–475, 477

ecological concept of, 464, 468–
471
geographical concept of, 460–465,
468, 471
phylogenetic conceptions of, 464,
468–469, 471–477
and typology, 456–461
typological concept of, 456–458,
460
Rachels, J., 202, 210, 214
racialism/racism, 240, 457
Raff, R., 179, 186
rationalism, 11, 16, 583
Ray, T. S., 591
reading-frame, 277
realism
and classification, 455
critical r., 211
reciprocal altruism, 25

recombination, high-frequency (Hfr),

269

recon, 277

reductionism, 353, 358, 367

and disjunction, 352, 356

historical, 357–363

refraction, Sine Law of, 335

regression, 313, 326

replaying the tape of life, 594

replication, 187

replicator, 143, 183–185, 188, 193

representation, 550, 554, 556

reproductive strategies, 227, 228

repulsion, 265

Rescher, N., 212

reversal, 441

Richards, R, J., 19, 26, 29, 208, 488

Richerson, P., 187

Ridley, M., 176, 230, 462, 465

Risch, N., 468, 472, 474

Risher,R.A.,37

risk analysis, 600

robots, 590

Rosenberg, A., 490, 504

Rosenberg, N., 474–475

Rosenblueth, A., 541

Roychoudhury, A. K., 472

RNA, regulatory 294

rudiment, 440, 441

Rudwick, M. J. S., 5

Ruse, M., 23, 24, 26, 29, 31, 209, 211,

239, 490

Russell, B., 106, 488

Rutherford, S., 170

Samules, R., 570

Sarkar, S., 372, 380

Schaffner,K., 491

Schelling, F., 32

Schiffler, S., 555

Schwann and Schleiden’s cellular the-

ory, 251

Schwenk, K., 191