Levels of selection in evolution

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Evolutionary biologists have recognised that natural selection operates for the good of lower-level units (the individual, the cell, even the gene) rather than the good of the group. In this volume, 12 scientists discuss why this should be the case.

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Full title :Levels of selection in evolution / Laurent Keller, editor.

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Publication Date:©1999.

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Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

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Description:xii, 318 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:0691007039, 9780691007038, 0691007047, 9780691007045
oclc:ocm40881650
LC Classification:QH375
Dewey Decimal:576.8/2

Levels of selection: burying the units-of-selection debate and unearthing the crucial new issues / H. Kern Reeve, Laurent Keller -- Levels of selection, potential conflicts, and their resolution: the role of the "common good" / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. -- The first replicators / Eörs Szathmʹary -- Individuality, immortality, and sex / Richard E. Michod -- Sexual conflict in animals / Catherine M. Lessells -- Parent-offspring conflict / H. Charles J. Godfray -- Intragenomic conflict / Andrew Pomiankowski -- Dynamics of conflicts within insect societies / Laurent Keller, H. Kern Reeve -- Complexity in vertebrate societies / Dawn M. Kitchen, Craig Packer -- Conflict and cooperation in human societies / John Maynard Smith -- Laws governing species interactions? Encouragement and caution from figs and their associates / Edward Allen Herre -- Lineage selection: natural selection for long-term benefit / Leonard Nunney.