Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

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PREFACE Peter Koslowski: Sociobiology, Theory of Evolution, and Bioeconomics - Introduction PART I: NEO-DARWINIAN SYNTHESIS, SOCIOBIOLOGY, AND THE ECONOMY OF NATURE 1. Michael T. Ghiselin: Darwinian Monism: The Economy of Nature 2. Tim Clutton-Brock and Geoff A. Parker: Coercion 3. Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew: Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis? PART II: NATURAL SELECTION AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS: REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN GENETIC AND NON-GENETIC FACTORS OF EVOLUTION 4. Susan Oyama: Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary 5. Eva M. Neumann-Held: The Gene is Dead - Long Live the Gene! Conceptualizing Genes the Constructionist Way PART III:REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE NARRATIVES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND THE NARRATIVES OF HERMENEUTICS, MYTHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY 6. Sergey V. Chebanov: The Role of Hermeneutics in Biology 7. Jacques Vauthier: Science and Mythology: a New 'metaxu'? 8. Aloys Hüttermann: What is the Impact of a Philosophically Based Criticism of Socio-Biology on the Scientific Community? PART IV: SYNERGETICS, SYMBIOSIS AND COOPERATION IN SOCIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY 9. Hermann Haken: Synergetics in Sociology and Biology 10.Hans-Dieter Görtz: Symbiosis, Mutualism and Cooperation in Biological Evolution PART V: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND ECONOMIC THEORY 11.Mae-Wan Ho: Are Economic Systems Like Organisms? 12.Peter T. Saunders: Darwinism and Economic Theory 13.Ulrich Witt: Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Biology CONCLUSION 14.Peter Koslowski: The Theory of Evolution as Sociobiology and Bioeconomics. A Critique of Its Claim to Universality LIST OF AUTHORS INDEX OF NAMES