Narrow roads of gene land : the collected papers of W.D. Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, W. D. (William Donald), 1936-2000.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social behavior in animals.

Behavior evolution.

Sexual selection in animals.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : W.H. Freeman/Spektrum, c1996-2005.

Summary:

W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second volume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1980 and 1991, many of them examining the role of parasites and disease in promoting genetic diversity. For each paper, Hamilton has written an accessible introduction describing why the work was done, how the paper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collection for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep insights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary processes.

Contents:

v. 1. Evolution of social behaviour

v. 2. The evolution of sex

v. 3. Last words.

Notes:

Vols. 2-3 published by Oxford University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0716745305

0198503369

0198566905

9780198566908

OCLC:

32392760

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