Evolutionary Restraints - The Contentious History of Group Selection

Zusammenfassung Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection could lead 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 population levels and thereby avoid overexploitation of their food and other resources.

Product details

• Authors: Mark E. Borrello, BORRELLO MARK E, Borrello Mark E.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9780226067018
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06701-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Evolution, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Evolution / Evolutionary biology