The gene's-eye view of evolution / J. Arvid Agren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ågren, J. Arvid, author.

Contributor:

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary genetics.

Selfish genetic elements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

Introduction: A New Way to Read Nature

How to think like a selfish gene

Aims and outline of the book

1: Historical Origins

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Adaptationism and the legacy of natural theology

1.2.1 Why William Paley matters

1.2.2 Neo-Paleyanbiology in Britain

1.3 Population genetics

1.3.1 Ronald Aylmer Fisher

1.3.2 Fisher (1918) and the birth of the gene's-eye view

1.3.3 The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

1.3.4 The gene's-eye view and the Fundamental Theorem made clear

1.4 Levels of selection

1.4.1 Wynne-Edwards and the origins of naive group selection

1.4.2 George Christopher Williams and Adaptation and Natural Selection

1.4.3 Three mistakes of naive group selection

1.4.4 Calling genes selfish

1.5 Summary

2: Defining and Refining Selfish Genes

2.1 Introduction

2.2 What is a selfish gene?

2.2.1 How long is a selfish gene?

2.2.2 Is a selfish gene a token or a type?

2.3 Replicators and vehicles

2.3.1 Lloyd's four questions and the immortality of replicators

2.4 Memes

2.5 General formulations of evolution by natural selection

2.5.1 Lewontin's Principles and limits of the replicator-vehicle approach

2.5.2 The major transitions and the levels of selection debate

2.6 Summary

3: Difficulties of The Theory

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Anthropomorphizing

3.2.1 Reading Mother Nature's mind and licensed anthropomorphism

3.3 Epistasis, heterozygote advantage, and the averaging fallacy

3.3.1 Ernst Mayr, Sewall Wright, and the matter with epistasis

3.3.2 Heterozygote advantage and the averaging fallacy

3.4 The bookkeeping objection

3.4.1 Tempered realism and pluralistic gene selectionism

3.5 Genetic determinism

3.5.1 Evo-devoand developmental systems theory

3.6 Human nature and human affairs

3.6.1 T.H. Huxley and Darwinian nightmares

3.7 Summary

4: Inclusive Fitness and Hamilton's Rule

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The origin and diversity of Hamilton's Rule

4.2.1 Hamilton's Rule today

4.3 The gene's-eyeview and inclusive fitness: equivalence or historical accident?

4.3.1 Formal connections between the gene's-eye view and Hamilton's Rule

4.4 Maximization of inclusive fitness and the Formal Darwinism Project

4.4.1 Genes versus individuals in the Formal Darwinism Project

4.5 Recent reconciliations between the gene's-eye view and inclusive fitness

4.5.1 The genetic lineage view of inclusive fitness

4.5.2 The folk definition of inclusive fitness and the parliament of genes

4.6 Summary

5: Empirical Implications

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Extended phenotypes

5.2.1 Three kinds of extended phenotypes

5.3 Greenbeards

5.3.1 Why greenbeards should be rare in nature

5.3.2 Helping and harming greenbeards

5.4 Selfish genetic elements

5.5 Summary

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 13, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Ågren, J. Arvid The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution

ISBN:

9780192607027

0192607022

9780191895050

0191895059

Publisher Number:

99988833309

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