Evolutionary Restraints - The Contentious History of Group Selection

Informationen zum Autor Mark E. Borrello is associate professor of the history of science in the Department of Ecology! Evolution! and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter groups! this title focuses on the British naturalist V C Wynne-Edwards! who proposed that animals could regulate their own populations and thus avoid overexploitation of their resources. Zusammenfassung Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter groups! this title focuses on the British naturalist V C Wynne-Edwards! who proposed that animals could regulate their own populations and thus avoid overexploitation of their resources.

Product details

• Authors: Mark E. Borrello, Borrello Mark E.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2012
• EAN: 9780226067032
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06703-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Evolution, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Evolution / Evolutionary biology