Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

AvJoan Roughgarden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? In "The Genial Gene", Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520258266

Utforska kategorier

Djurens beteende inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Djurböcker inom Djur och Natur

Mer om författaren

Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is the author of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (UC Press), Evolution and Christian Faith, and Primer of Ecological Theory.

Recensioner i media

"The arguments and counterarguments will most certainly generate a good deal of heat, but also, let's hope,... even more light." The American Scholar "Roughgarden's new theory is likely to end up an important extension to existing thought." New Scientist "Succeeds in re-opening issues long thought closed...(Challenging) what we thought we already know." Nature "Argues that... sexual selection as a form of self-seeking improvement on the part of each beast is a myth." New Yorker

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction: Is Nature Selfish? COOPERATION AND TEAMWORK1. Sexual Selection Defined 2. The Case against Sexual Selection 3. Social Selection Defined THE GENETIC SYSTEM FOR SEX4. The Gene: Recombination 5. The Cell: Sperm and Egg 6. The Body: Male, Female, and Hermaphrodite THE SOCIAL SYSTEM FOR SEX7. The Behavioral Tier 8. The Evolutionary Tier 9. Family Harmony and Discord 10. Sharing Offspring with Neighbors Conclusion: Social versus Sexual Selection Index