The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

This original account of the role of philosophy and methodology in political science gets
back to the basics of studying politics. Cutting through long-standing controversies across …

Previous research has postulated effects of environmental stress on ingroup/outgroup
thinking: The higher the pathogenic risk and the perceived vulnerability to it, the higher the …

A prominent approach to scientific explanation and modeling claims that for a model to
provide an explanation it must accurately represent at least some of the actual causes in the …

Over the past decade philosophers of biology have discussed whether evolutionary theory is
a causal theory or a phenomenological study of evolution based solely on the statistical …

An examination of how scientists deliberately and justifiably use pervasive distortions of
relevant features to explain and understand natural phenomena. A fundamental rule of logic …

Models of evolutionary population dynamics represent changes in the structure of evolving
populations in terms of selection, drift, and fitness. 1 There is a range of such models, from …

Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often
known as the debate between the'causalist'and'statisticalist'positions, have involved …

Population genetics is a field of biology that studies the genetic composition of biological
populations, and the changes in genetic composition that result from the operation of various …

This paper explores how work in the philosophy of science can be used when teaching
scientific content to science students and when training future science teachers. I examine …