Evolutionary Biology

I. Limits to Knowledge: An Introduction.- 1. Limits to Our Knowledge of Evolution.- 2. Limits to Knowledge in Population Genetics.- II. The Philosophy of Biology, Paradigms, and Paradigm Shifts.- 3. Laws, History, and the Nature of Biological Understanding.- 4. Avoiding Paradigm-Based Limits to Knowledge of Evolution.- 5. Anticipating Scientific Revolutions in Evolutionary Genetics.- III. Limits to Historical Inference and Prediction.- 6. Inferring Ancestral Character States.- 7. The Problem of Inferring Selection and Evolutionary History from Molecular Data.- 8. Evolutionary Genetics of Primate Color Vision: Recent Progress and Potential Limits to Knowledge.- 9. The Limits to Knowledge in Conservation Genetics: The Value of Effective Population Size.- 10. What Is the Structure of Human Populations?.- IV. Quantitative Genetics and the Prediction of Phenotype from Genotype.- 11. Limits to Prediction of Phenotypes from Knowledge of Genotypes.- 12. The Limits to Knowledge in Quantitative Genetics.- 13. Genetics of Species Differentiation: What Is Unknown and What Will Be Unknowable?.- Conclusions.