| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Charles Darwin and natural selection -- Social insects, superorganisms, and mutual aid -- Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards -- Theory development -- Animal dispersion -- Critique of Wynne-Edwards -- The new paradigm of the gene -- The death of Wynne-Edwards and the life of an idea |
| Summary |
Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection--from the gene, the trait, and the organism, to the family, the group, and the species. However, it is the debate about group selection that Mark E. Borrello focuses on in Evolutionary Restraints. Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection could lead to the evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British naturalist V.C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could reg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner
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| SUBJECT |
Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner fast |
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Group selection (Evolution) -- History -- 20th century
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Group selection (Evolution)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009051465 |
| ISBN |
9780226067025 |
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0226067025 |
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