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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Why Life Is All Process -- A World Of Things -- A World Of Process -- Life As Process -- Essences -- Some Philosophical Background -- 2 Evolution And Lineages -- Introduction -- The Ontology Of Evolution -- Species As Individuals -- Stabilizing Species -- Changing Lineages -- Species And Lineages -- 3 Humans And Their Fellow Travellers -- Organisms -- Holobionts -- Viruses -- Holobiont Lineages -- Pregnancy -- Human Cooperation -- 4 Personal Identity -- Introduction -- Individuating Processes The Persistence Of Processes -- Individuating Human Processes -- Toxic Heritocracy -- (near) Immortality -- 5 Human Nature And Human Kinds -- Human Nature -- Human Plasticity -- Sex And Gender -- Race -- Cultural Kinds -- 6 Free Will -- Introduction -- Mechanism And Process -- Agency -- Goals -- Cooperation Again: Freedom As Social Construct -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index John Dupré. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.