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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Natural selection, adaptation, and progress
- Natural selection, ecology, and morphogenesis
- Group selection
- Adaptations of the genetic system
- Reproductive physiology and behavior
- Social adaptations
- Other supposedly group-related adaptations
- The scientific study of adaptation.