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Basic principles and proofs of Darwinism
Struggle for existence and natural selection / Charles Darwin
Evolution / Eugenie G. Scott
Evolution and chance
Beyond the reach of chance / Michael Denton
Accumulating small change / Richard Dawkins
Chance and natural selection / John Beatty
The principle of drift : biology's first law / Robert N. Brandon
The tautology problem
Darwin's untimely burial / Stephen Jay Gould
Adaptation and evolutionary theory / Robert N. Brandon
Adaptationism
The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
How to carry out the adaptationist program? / Ernst Mayr
Biological function and teleology
The modern philosophical resurrection of teleology / Mark Perlman
Neo-teleology / Robert Cummins
A modern history theory of functions / Peter Godfrey-Smith
Evolutionary developmental biology
Endless forms : the evolution of gene regulation and morphological diversity / Sean B. Carroll
Functional evo-devo / Casper J. Breuker, Vincent Debat, and Christian Peter Klingenberg
Reductionism and the biological sciences
1953 and all that : a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher
The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliot Sober
Species and classification problems
Species, taxonomy, and systematics / Marc Ereshefsky
Speciation : a catalogue and critique of species concepts / Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr
The units of selection debate
Artifact, cause and genic selection / Elliott Sober and Richard C. Lewontin
The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher
The levels of selection debate : philosophical issues / Samir Okasha
Sociobiology and ethics
Sociobiology : the new synthesis / Edward O. Wilson
The evolution of cooperation / Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton
Darwinism in contemporary moral philosophy and social theory / Alex Rosenberg
Evolutionary psychology
Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
The environments of our hominin ancestors, tool-usage, and scenario visualization / Robert Arp
Design and creationism
Science and creationism / Donald Prothero
Irreducible complexity : obstacle to Darwinian evolution / Michael Behe
The flagellum unspun : the collapse of irreducible complexity / Kenneth R. Miller.

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