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Evolutionary restraints : the contentious history of group selection /
Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection--from the gene, the trait, and the organism, to the family, the group, and the species. However, it is the debate about gro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Charles Darwin and natural selection
- Social insects, superorganisms, and mutual aid
- Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards
- Theory development
- Animal dispersion
- Critique of Wynne-Edwards
- The new paradigm of the gene
- The death of Wynne-Edwards and the life of an idea.