The Selfish GeneAs influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. |
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R. L. Trivers, in 1972, neatly solved the problem with his concept of Parental
Investment (although, reading between the close-packed lines, one feels that Sir
Ronald Fisher, the greatest biologist of the twentieth century, meant much the
same ...
R. L. Trivers, in 1972, neatly solved the problem with his concept of Parental
Investment (although, reading between the close-packed lines, one feels that Sir
Ronald Fisher, the greatest biologist of the twentieth century, meant much the
same ...
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Trivers and Hare made allowance for this by weighing them. They took 20
species of ant and estimated the sex ratio in terms of investment in reproductives.
They found a rather convincingly close fit to the 3: I female to male ratio predicted
by ...
Trivers and Hare made allowance for this by weighing them. They took 20
species of ant and estimated the sex ratio in terms of investment in reproductives.
They found a rather convincingly close fit to the 3: I female to male ratio predicted
by ...
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TRIVERs, R. L. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Q. Rev. Biol. 46, 35–
57. TRIVERs, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In Sexual
selection and the descent of man (ed. B. Campbell). Aldine, Chicago. TRIVERS ...
TRIVERs, R. L. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Q. Rev. Biol. 46, 35–
57. TRIVERs, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In Sexual
selection and the descent of man (ed. B. Campbell). Aldine, Chicago. TRIVERS ...
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