Genial Gene - Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Zusatztext "Argues that. . . . sexual selection as a form of self-seeking improvement on the part of each beast is a myth." Informationen zum Autor Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is the author of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (UC Press), Evolution and Christian Faith, and Primer of Ecological Theory. Klappentext "Roughgarden's unique and forceful vision issues a timely, cogent challenge to the predominant world view that selfishness and conflict are the norm in adaptive evolution."—Michael J. Wade, coauthor of Mating Systems and Strategies "No other book offers such a sustained argument against sexual selection theory and provides such a compelling alternative—substantively important and exciting."—Jonathan Kaplan, coauthor of Making Sense of Evolution "This may be the most important book, philosophically speaking, on evolutionary theory in a decade. If Roughgarden is right, males and females evolved as allies, not enemies, and evolutionary theory needs a rethink because competition evolves in a cooperative world, not the other way around."—James Griesemer, President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Zusammenfassung Develops a controversial alternative theory called social selection, which emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Roughgarden, Joanna Roughgarden, Roughgarden Joan
• Assisted by: Joan Roughgarden (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780520265936
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26593-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Animal behaviour, Wildlife: general interest, Ethology and animal behaviour