Agents and goals in evolution

Part I. Agency in evolutionary biology. Agential thinking and its rationale

Genes and groups as agents

Part II. The 'goal' of fitness maximization. Wright's adaptive landscape, Fisher's fundamental theorem

Grafen's formal Darwinism, adaptive dynamics

Social evolution, Hamilton's rule, and inclusive fitness

Part III. Rationality meets evolution. The evolution-rationality connection

Can adaptiveness and rationality part ways?

Risk, rational choice, and evolution.