Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution : historical and conceptual issues /: historical and conceptual issues. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ciprian Jeler.
• Editors: Jeler, Ciprian
• Contents: 1. Chapter 1: Introduction (Ciprian Jeler) Part I: Historical issues: Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution during the twentieth century Chapter 2: The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang)Chapter 3: Tales of a failed scientific revolution. Wynne-Edwards' 'Animal Dispersion'(Mihail-Valentin Cernea)Chapter 4: Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism (Ryan Ketcham)Part II: Conceptual issues: Higher-level causes, fitnesses and traitsChapter 5: Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness (Ciprian Jeler)Chapter 6: A backward question about multilevel selection: can species selection help disentangle the notion of group selection? (Andreea Eşanu).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 576.82; Natural selection; Evolution (Biology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319786773
• Related ISBNs: 9783319786766
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