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Nature's oracle : the life and work of W.D. Hamilton /
W.D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. He played a central role in the realization that what matters in evolution is not the survival of the individual but of the survival of its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | W.D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. He played a central role in the realization that what matters in evolution is not the survival of the individual but of the survival of its genes. This provided the solution to the long standing problem of animal altruism that vexed even Darwin himself, and in due course resulted in terms like selfish genes, kin selection, and sociobiology becoming familiar to a wider public. Hamilton went on to solve many more major problems, and open u. |
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| Notas: | Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 31, 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 441 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191642760 0191642762 9781283950367 1283950367 9780198607274 019860727X |