Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd

Units of Selection

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research. This Element presents each of these concepts and demonstrates the necessity of their isolation"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781009449236
• ISBN-10: 1009449230
• Artikelnr.: 68358993

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What is a Unit of Selection and How Can We Identify It? The Disambiguating and the Unitary Projects
2. How the Expression 'Units of Selection' Acquired Its Polysemic Meaning or Why the Disambiguating Project Started
3. Two Sources of Misunderstanding in Past and Today's Debates about Units
4. The Framework of the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: A Challenge to the Disambiguating Project
Conclusion
Glossary
References.