Evolutionary restraints : the contentious history of group selection / Mark E. Borrello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borrello, Mark E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner.

Group selection (Evolution)--History--20th century.

Group selection (Evolution).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much 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 to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello's Evolutionary Restraints. Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could regulate their own populations and thus

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

Chapter Two. Social Insects, Superorganisms, and Mutual Aid

Chapter Three. Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards

Chapter Four. Theory Development

Chapter Five. Animal Dispersion

Chapter Six. Critique of Wynne-Edwards

Chapter Seven. The New Paradigm of the Gene

Chapter Eight. The Death of Wynne-Edwards and the Life of an Idea

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612894657

9781282894655

128289465X

9780226067025

0226067025

OCLC:

676698642