George C Williams

Group Selection

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. This book states that, however, nature also displays phenomena that are not related to survival or that seem clearly to violate the principle of self-preservation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138524583
• ISBN-10: 1138524581
• Artikelnr.: 69943898

Autorenporträt

George C. Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Altruistic Behavior and Social Organization
1: On the Effects of Selection on Social Insects
2: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior. I.
3: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior. II.
II: Adaptive Regulation of Population Density
4: Intergroup Selection in the Evolution of Social Systems
Group Selection and Kin Selection: A Rejoinder
A Reply to Maynard Smith's Rejoinder
Survival of Young Swifts in Relation to Brood-Size
A Rejoinder to Perrins
III: Higher Levels of Organization
5: The Evolution of Stability in Marine Environments: Natural Selection at the Level of the Ecosystem
IV: Sex Ratio
6: Natural Selection and the Sex Ratio
7: Evolutionary Origin of Sexual Differentiation and the Sex Ratio
8: Comments on the Two Preceding Papers
V: Sex
9: The Origin and Maintenance of Sex
10: Evolution in Sexual and Asexual Populations
11: Evolution in Sexual and Asexual Populations
12: Evolution in Sexual and Asexual Populations