These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics.这些由著名科学家和哲学家撰写的论文讨论了进化生物学理论和实践中出现的概念问题。这本被广泛使用的选集的第三版已被大量修订和更新。增加了四个新的章节：关于进化过程中的女性、进化心理学、进化理论中的规律以及种族作为社会结构或生物现实。其他章节讨论适合度、选择单位、适应论、还原论、本质主义、物种、系统发育推理、文化进化和进化伦理。