Evolutionary restraints: the contentious history of group selection
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1. Verfasser: Borrello, Mark E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 group selection that Mark E. Borrello focuses on in Evolutionary Restraints. Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection could lead to the evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British naturalist V.C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could reg
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