There have been periodic claims that evolutionary biology needs urgent reform, and this
article tries to account for the volume and persistence of this discontent. It is argued that a …

This issue of Interface Focus publishes articles based on presentations to a joint Discussion
Meeting of the British Academy and the Royal Society held at Carlton House Terrace on 7–9 …

In this essay I consider how biologists understand 'causation'and 'evolutionary process',
drawing attention to some idiosyncrasies in the use of these terms. I suggest that research …

Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent
philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of …

The thesis of my contribution is that the evolution of evolutionary thinking (Hull 1988) since
the making of the Modern Synthesis has been characterized by simultaneous unifying and …

Evolutionary developmental biology is an emerging new research area that explores the
links between two fundamental processes of life: development of individual organisms …

The idea that behaviour has played an important role in evolution has had its ups and
downs over the past two centuries. Now it appears to be up once again. Lamarck can claim …

Abstract Welch (Biol Philos 32 (2): 263–279, 2017) has recently proposed two possible
explanations for why the field of evolutionary biology is plagued by a steady stream of claims …

There has been debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this
anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the …

Does the progress in understanding evolutionary theory depend on the species that is doing
the investigation? This question is difficult to answer scientifically, as we are dealing with an …