Preface ....................................................... vii
Acknowledgements ............................................... ix
Introduction .................................................... 1
I Science
1 The Miracle of Monism ....................................... 21
2 What's the Fuss about Social Constructivism? ................ 40
3 The Inseparability of Science and Values .................... 55
II Biology
4 The Constituents of Life 1: Species, Microbes, and Genes .... 69
5 The Constituents of Life 2: Organisms and Systems ........... 85
6 understanding Contemporary Genomics ........................ 101
7 The Polygenomic Organism ................................... 116
8 It is not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to
Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics ................... 128
9 Postgenomic Darwinism ...................................... 143
III Microbes
10 Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy
of Biology With Maureen A. O'Malley ........................ 163
11 Metagenomics and Biological Ontology With Maureen
A. O'Malley ................................................ 188
12 Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of
Lineage and Metabolism With Maureen O'Malley ............... 206
13 Emerging Sciences and New Conceptions of Disease: Or,
Beyond the Monogenomic Differentiated Cell Lineage ......... 230
IV Humans
14 Against Maladaptationism: Or, What's Wrong with
Evolutionary Psychology .................................... 245
15 What Genes Are, and Why There Are No 'Genes for Race' ...... 261
16 Causality and Human Nature in the Social Sciences .......... 275
Bibliography .................................................. 295
Index ......................................................... 331
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