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  • Adaptation and Natural Selection
    George Christopher Williams
    Biological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection-the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of si...
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    30,44 €

  • Evolution and Ethics
    George Christopher Williams / James G. Paradis / James GParadis
    T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) was not only an active protagonist in the religious and scientific upheaval that followed the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution but also a harbinger of the sociobiological debates about the implications of evolution that are now going on. His seminal lecture Evolution and Ethics, reprinted here with its introductory Prolegomena, argues that th...
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    180,10 €

  • Evolution and Ethics
    George Christopher Williams / James G. Paradis / James GParadis
    T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) was not only an active protagonist in the religious and scientific upheaval that followed the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution but also a harbinger of the sociobiological debates about the implications of evolution that are now going on. His seminal lecture Evolution and Ethics, reprinted here with its introductory Prolegomena, argues that th...
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    72,17 €

  • Natural Selection
    George Christopher Williams
    This important new volume examines the mechanism and action of natural selection in evolution. It includes discussions of the gene as the unit of selection, clade selection and macroevolution, and other timely issues. ...
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    214,72 €

  • Sex and Evolution
    George Christopher Williams
    This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, a...
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    86,31 €