The deep structure of biology: is convergence sufficiently ubiquitous to give a directional signal?

Introduction / Simon Conway Morris

1. Chance and necessity in evolution / Richard E. Lenski

2. Convergent evolution : a periodic table of life? / George McGhee

3. Life's evolutionary history : is it determinate or indeterminate? / Karl J. Niklas

4. Evolution and convergence : some wider considerations / Simon Conway Morris

5. Aspects of plant intelligence : convergence and evolution / Anthony Trewavas

6. Convergent evolution, serendipity, and intelligence ofr the simple minded / Nigel R. Franks

7. Canny corvids and political primates : a case for convergent evolution in intelligence / Nicola S. Clayton and Nathan J. Emery

8. Social and cultural evolution in the ocean : convergences and contrasts with terrestrial systems / Hal Whitehead

9. The illusion of purpose in evolution : a human evolutionary perspective / Robert A. Foley

10. Purpose in a Darwinian world / Michael Ruse

11. Plumbing the depths : a recovery of natural law and natural wisdom in the context of debates about evolutionary purpose / Celia Deane-Drummond

12. Purpose in nature : on the possibility of a theology of evolution / John F. Haught

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