ContentsList of ContributorsPrefacePART IThe Nature of Selection1 The nature of selection: An overview Tim Lewens2 Multilevel selection and units of selection up and down the biological hierarchyElisabeth A. Lloyd3 Adaptation, multilevel selection, and organismality: A clash of perspectivesEllen Clarke4 Fitness maximizationJonathan Birch5 Does biology need teleology?Karen NeanderPART IIEvolution and Information6 Evolution and information: An overviewUlrich Stegmann7 The construction of learned information through selection processesNir Fresco, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg8 Genetic, epigenetic, and exogenetic informationKarola Stotz and Paul Griffiths9 Language: From how-possibly to how-probably? Kim Sterelny10 Acquiring knowledge on species-specific biorealities: The applied evolutionary epistemological approachNathalie Gontier and Michael BradiePART IIIHuman Nature11 Human Nature: An overviewStephen Downes12 The reality of species: Real phenomena not theoretical objects John Wilkins13 Modern essentialism for species and its animadversionsJoseph LaPorte14 What is human nature (if it is anything at all?)Louise Barrett15 The right to ignore: An epistemic defense of the nature/culture divideMaria KronfeldnerPART IVEvolution and Mind16 Evolution and mind: An overviewValerie Hardcastle17 Routes to the convergent evolution of cognitionEdward Legg, Ljerka Ostojić, and Nicola Clayton18 Is consciousness an adaptation?Kari Theurer and Thomas Polger19 Plasticity and modularityEdouard Machery20 The prospects for teleosemantics: Can biological functions fix mental content?Justine KingsburyPART VEvolution and Ethics21 Evolution and ethics: An overviewCatherine Wilson 22 The evolution of moral intuitions and their feeling of rightnessChristine Clavien and Chloë FitzGerald23 Are we losing it? Darwin’s moral sense and the importance of early experienceDarcia Narvaez 24 The evolution of morality and the prospects for moral realismBen Fraser25 Moral cheesecake, evolved psychology, and the debunking impulseDaniel KellyPART VIEvolution, Aesthetics, and Art26 Evolution, aesthetics, and art: An overviewStephen Davies27 Music and human evolution: Philosophical aspectsAnton Killin28 Emotional responses to fiction: An evolutionary perspectiveHelen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt29 Evolution and literature: Theory and exampleBrian Boyd30 Play and evolutionPatrick Bateson

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