Introduction : chance in evolution from Darwin to contemporary biology / Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence -- Contingency, chance, and randomness in ancient, medieval, and modern biology / David J. Depew -- Chance and chances in Darwin's early theorizing and in Darwinian theory today / Jonathan Hodge -- Chance in the modern synthesis / Anya Plutynski, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Lucas John Matthews, and Daniel Molter -- Is it providential, by chance? : Christian objections to the role of chance in Darwinian evolution / J. Matthew Ashley -- Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance? / Michael Ruse -- The reference class problem in evolutionary biology : distinguishing selection from drift / Michael Strevens -- Weak randomness at the origin of biological variation : the case of genetic mutations / Francesca Merlin -- Parallel evolution : what does it (not) tell us and why is it (still) interesting? / Thomas Lenormand, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Thomas Battaillon -- Contingent evolution : not by chance alone / Eric Desjardins -- History's windings in a flask : microbial experiments into evolutionary contingency / Zachary D. Blount -- Rolling the dice twice : evolving reconstructed ancient proteins in extant organisms / Betul Kacar -- Wonderful life revisited : chance and contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation / Douglas H. Erwin.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.