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Levels of selection in evolution /
Evolutionary biologists have recognised that natural selection operates for the good of lower-level units (the individual, the cell, even the gene) rather than the good of the group. In this volume, 12 scientists discuss why this should be the case.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Monographs in behavior and ecology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Levels of selection: burying the units-of-selection debate and unearthing the crucial new issues / H. Kern Reeve, Laurent Keller
- Levels of selection, potential conflicts, and their resolution: the role of the "common good" / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.
- The first replicators / Eörs Szathmʹary
- Individuality, immortality, and sex / Richard E. Michod
- Sexual conflict in animals / Catherine M. Lessells
- Parent-offspring conflict / H. Charles J. Godfray
- Intragenomic conflict / Andrew Pomiankowski
- Dynamics of conflicts within insect societies / Laurent Keller, H. Kern Reeve
- Complexity in vertebrate societies / Dawn M. Kitchen, Craig Packer
- Conflict and cooperation in human societies / John Maynard Smith
- Laws governing species interactions? Encouragement and caution from figs and their associates / Edward Allen Herre
- Lineage selection: natural selection for long-term benefit / Leonard Nunney.