Cambridge University Press has just published Elliott Sober's book /Evidence and
Evolution -- The Logic Behind the Science/.  

How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of
evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in
evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich
and wide-ranging book, Elliott Sober investigates general questions about
probability and evidence and shows how the answers he develops to those
questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary biology. Drawing on a set of
fascinating examples, he analyzes whether claims about intelligent design are
untestable; whether they are discredited by the fact that many adaptations are
imperfect; how evidence bears on whether present species trace back to common
ancestors; how hypotheses about natural selection can be tested, and many other
issues. His book will interest all readers who want to understand philosophical
questions about evidence and evolution, as they arise both in Darwin's work and
in contemporary biological research.

For more information see http://www.cambridge.org/9780521692748.

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