Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology 1
5. 1. The Historical Development and Implications of Chance in Evolution
6. 1. Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology 15
7. 2. Chance and Chances in Darwin’s Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today 41
8. 3. Chance in the Modern Synthesis 76
9. 4. Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution 103
10. 5. Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? 122
11. 2. Chance in the Processes of Evolution
12. 6. The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift 145
13. 7. Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations 176
14. 8. Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? 196
15. 3. Chance and Contingency in the History of Life
16. 9. Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone 223
17. 10. History’s Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency 244
18. 11. Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms 264
19. 12. Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation 277
20. References 299
21. Contributors 347
22. Index 351