Natural selection : domains, levels, and challenges
In this work, George C. Williams--one of evolutionary biology's most distinguished scholars--examines the mechanisms and meaning of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his own perspective on modern evolutionary theory, including discussions of the gene as the unit of selection, clade selection and macroevolution, diversity within and among populations, stasis, and other timely and provocative topics. In dealing with the levels-of-selection controversy, he urges a pervasive form of the replicator-vehicle distinction. Natural selection, he argues, takes place in the separate domains
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9781423736967, 9781601298195, 9780195069334, 9780195069327, 1423736966, 1601298196, 0195069331, 0195069323
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1 A Philosophical Position; 2 The Gene as a Unit of Selection; 3 Clade Selection and Macroevolution; 4 Levels of Selection Among Interactors; 5 Optimization and Related Concepts; 6 Historicity and Constraint; 7 Diversity Within and Among Populations; 8 Some Recent Issues; 9 Stasis; 10 Other Challenges and Anomalies; References; Appendix (excerpts for Galen and Paley); Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010