Group Selection Tapa blanda - 2008

Very Good.

Tight, clean, unmarked pages (except for prior owner's name on half-title page). Square spine. Gently used copy.

Transaction Publishers , pp. 224 . Papeback. Used.

New. Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. However, nature also displays phenomena that are not related to survival or that seem clearly to violate the principle of self-preservation - particularly when organisms interact with one another. Darwin investigated these apparent contradictions and proposed that both mechanisms of self preservation and those of reproduction are explained by a more basic principle of "natural selection" - the reproductive survival of the fittest. George C. Williams in "Group Selection" challenges the adequacy of this process of selection at the individual level.Williams has here collected the work of the chief partisans with opposed viewpoints on the theory of selection at the group level to state their arguments and rebuttals. A minority of modern biologists offer evidence to show that groups of living… Leer más

Routledge, 2008. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Paperback / softback. New. Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. This book states that, however, nature also displays phenomena that are not related to survival or that seem clearly to violate the principle of self-preservation.

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Aldine De Gruyter, 2008. Paperback. New. 230 pages. 9.25x5.75x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.