INDEX
adaptation, 9, 14, 30, 40–42, 53, 65,
116, 166, 180, 181, 183, 186–
187, 190, 192, 331, 351, 361,
469–471, 529, 530, 580–581,
586, 592, 598
constraints on, 122
and facilitated variation, 194
adaptationism, 116–123, 136, 143–144,
359, 529
and comparative method, 120
empirical, 118, 121, 123
explanatory, 120
hard, 122
methodological, 119
soft, 122
adaptiveness, 181
Agassiz, L., 5, 32, 433
agents, autonomous 590
Agricultural Revolution, 9
alleles, 137–139, 223, 254, 257, 259,
269, 272–273, 285, 288–289,
316, 326, 331, 498–499, 509–
511, 514
pseudo-alleles, 275
Allen, C., 534
allogeny, 430
altruism, 67-69, 147–148, 150, 203,
225–226 (See also reciprocal
altruism.)
Amundson, R. A., 119, 121, 185, 186,
530
analogy, 12, 429, 430, 432
analysis of variance (ANOVA), 40, 257
Andreasen, R. O., 471–477
Appiah, K. A., 455–459
archetypes, 433, 445
Ariew, A., 576
Aristotle, 404, 432, 458, 528, 595, 597
arms races, 17
Arthur, W., 174–175
artificial
cells, 588
intelligence, 586
life, 599
selection, 508
atavisms, 441
autocatalysis, 271, 529
autosomality, 51, 58, 59, 60, 260
Auyang, S., 503
Avery, A., 279
axiomatization, 350, 488–500, 502, 504,
505, 506–507bacteriophage, 275–279, 280
bands and inter-bands, 262
Barash, D., 228, 240
barnacles, 21
Bateson, P., 580–581
Bateson, W., 253–256, 265, 283, 288,
313, 315–316
presence-and-absence hypothesis
283
Beadle, G., 250, 274, 286, 295
Beatty, J., 113–114, 495
Beckner, M., 490, 503
Bedau, M. A., 592, 596
Beer, R. D., 597
Bell, G., 183
benefits, accidental, 531
Beth, E., 493
binomial names, 419–420, 423–424
Biogenic law, 180
biogeography, 17, 504
biometry, 315, 316, 319–321