Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges - Domains, Levels and Challenges

Zusatztext Students of animal behaviour will enjoy his characteristically incisive approach to each problem! and may often be persuaded by his unorthodox solutions ... a fundamental framework for thinking about natural selection. Klappentext This important new volume examines the mechanism and action of natural selection in evolution. It includes discussions of the gene as the unit of selection, clade selection and macroevolution, and other timely issues. Zusammenfassung This important new volume examines the mechanism and action of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his own synthesis of modern evolutionary theory. His preeminent position in the field will attract the immediate and widespread interest of evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and their graduate students. Inhaltsverzeichnis A philosophical position; The gene as a unit of selection; Clade selection and macroevolution; Levels of selection among interactors; Optimization and kindred concepts; Historicity and constraint; Diversity within and between clades; Some recent controversies; Stasis; Other challenges and anomalies; Bibliography; Appendix.

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• Authors: George C. Williams, George C. (Professor of Ecology and Evol Williams, George C. (Professor of Ecology and Evolution Williams, George Christopher Williams
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.1992
• EAN: 9780195069334
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506933-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution; Oxford Series in Ecology & Evo; Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering