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