Natural selection : domains, levels, and challenges

Williams, George C. (George Christopher) 1926-2010 (Author).

Summary: 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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ISBN: 0195069331
ISBN: 0195069323
ISBN: 9781601298195
ISBN: 9781423736967
ISBN: 9780195069334
ISBN: 9780195069327
ISBN: 1601298196
ISBN: 1423736966
ISBN: 0195069331
ISBN: 0195069323
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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