Evolutionary restraints : the contentious history of group selection /
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Author / Creator: | Borrello, Mark E. |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232221 |
ISBN: | 9780226067025 0226067025 9780226067018 0226067017 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
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. |
Other form: | Print version: Borrello, Mark E. Evolutionary restraints. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226067018 |
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