Genes, Organisms, Populations - Controversies Over the Units of Selection

Informationen zum Autor Robert Brandon is Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the coeditor of Genes! Organisms! Populations: Controversies over the Units of Selection (MIT Press! 1984). Klappentext Natural selection and the controversial issues over the units of selection are the subject of these seventeen essays! grouped in sections that focus on the history of the topic! discuss the levels and units of selection! and present kin! group! and hierarchical models of selection. Zusammenfassung Natural selection and the controversial issues over the units of selection are the subject of these seventeen essays! grouped in sections that focus on the history of the topic! discuss the levels and units of selection! and present kin! group! and hierarchical models of selection.

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• Authors: Robert N. Burian Brandon
• Assisted by: Robert N. Brandon (Editor), Richard Burian (Editor), Richard M. Burian (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9780262521154
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52115-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: A Bradford Book; Bradford Books; Genes, Organisms, Populations; The MIT Press; A Bradford Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works