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Adaptation and Natural Selection : A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought /

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular id...

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Autor principal: Williams, George C. (George Christopher), 1926-2010 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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