Evolutionary restraints [[electronic resource] ] : the contentious history of group selection / / Mark E. Borrello

• Autore: Borrello Mark E
• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.8/2
• Soggetto topico: Group selection (Evolution) - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Charles Darwin and Natural Selection -- Chapter Two. Social Insects, Superorganisms, and Mutual Aid -- Chapter Three. Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards -- Chapter Four. Theory Development -- Chapter Five. Animal Dispersion -- Chapter Six. Critique of Wynne-Edwards -- Chapter Seven. The New Paradigm of the Gene -- Chapter Eight. The Death of Wynne-Edwards and the Life of an Idea -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Much 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 to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello's Evolutionary Restraints. Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could regulate their own populations and thus
• Titolo autorizzato: Evolutionary restraints
• ISBN: 1-282-89465-X; 9786612894657; 0-226-06702-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458795303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II