| Description |
xiii, 594 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Experimental evolution / P.H. Clarke -- Variation as a genetic engineering process / J.A. Shapiro -- Gene, organism and environment / R.C. Lewontin -- Population genetics and ecology: the interface / E. Nevo -- A Darwinian plant ecology / J.L. Harper -- Irrelevance, submission and partnership: the changing role of palaeontology in Darwin's three centennials and a modest proposal for macroevolution / S.J. Gould -- Plate tectonics and evolution / A. Hallam -- Microevolution and macroevolution / F.J. Ayala -- Universal Darwinism / R. Dawkins -- The development of an evolutionary ethology / R.W. Burkhardt -- Game theory and the evolution of cooperation / J. Maynard Smith -- Selection in relation to sex / T.H. Clutton-Brock |
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How far will Darwin take us? / A.F. Huxley -- Darwin, intellectual revolutionary / Ernst Mayr -- The development of Darwin's general biological theorizing / M.J.S. Hodge -- Darwin and the nature of science / D.L. Hull -- The several faces of Darwin: materialism in nineteenth and twentieth century evolutionary theory / G.E. Allen -- Self-replication and molecular evolution / M. Eigen -- Molecular tinkering in evolution / F. Jacob -- Intimations of evolution from the three-dimensional structures of proteins / D.C. Phillips, M.J.E. Sternberg and B.J. Sutton -- Evolution of gene families: the globin genes / A.J. Jeffreys, S. Harris, P.A. Barrie, D. Wood, A. Blanchetot and S.M. Adams -- Gene clusters and genome evolution / W.F. Bodmer -- The primary lines of descent and the universal ancestor / C.R Woese |
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Rules for changing the rules / P.P.G. Bateson -- Aspects of human evolution / G. Ll. Isaac -- Sociobiology and the Darwinism approach to mind and culture / E.O. Wilson -- Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem / Bernard Williams -- The mysterious case of Charles Darwin / J. Passmore |
| Summary |
"Giving a broad view of biological evolution the topics discussed here range from the history of the development of evolutionary thought, through current problems in molecular evolution and the evolution of whole organisms, to evolution of behaviour, sociobiology and man's place in evolution"--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Man Evolution |
| Notes |
Revised papers first presented at a conference entitled "Evolution of molecules and men", Darwin College, Cambridge, 27 June-2 July 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Credits |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference entitled Evolution of molecules and men, held at Darwin College, Cambridge, 27 June-2 July, 1982, revised for publication and edited by D.S. Bendall on behalf of Darwin College, Cambridge |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses.
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Evolution -- Congresses.
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Evolution.
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Human evolution.
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Biological Evolution.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bendall, D. S.
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Darwin College (University of Cambridge)
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| LC no. |
82022020 |
| ISBN |
0521247535 |
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