The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian SelfishnessAre selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them. |
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... individuals and institutions . For more information , visit www.ucpress.edu . University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California University of California Press , Ltd. London , England © 2009 by The Regents of ...
... individuals and institutions . For more information , visit www.ucpress.edu . University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California University of California Press , Ltd. London , England © 2009 by The Regents of ...
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... individual selection as the more important route to evolutionary success . He was criticizing a familiar narrative at the time that accounted for the evolution of traits by appeals to group or species benefits . I agree with Dawkins ...
... individual selection as the more important route to evolutionary success . He was criticizing a familiar narrative at the time that accounted for the evolution of traits by appeals to group or species benefits . I agree with Dawkins ...
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... individual " is.20 Who counts as an individual seems obvious when thinking of ourselves , or our pets , live- stock , or other organisms who become detached from their parents at birth . But individuality is not so clear cut in many ...
... individual " is.20 Who counts as an individual seems obvious when thinking of ourselves , or our pets , live- stock , or other organisms who become detached from their parents at birth . But individuality is not so clear cut in many ...
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... individuals , " but these individual share space and function with other types of individuals , the mitochondria , and other or- ganelles . In comparison to fungi , the plants and animals that have only a single nucleus per cell are ...
... individuals , " but these individual share space and function with other types of individuals , the mitochondria , and other or- ganelles . In comparison to fungi , the plants and animals that have only a single nucleus per cell are ...
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... individual is problematic . The seeming clarity with which evolutionary biology seems to bespeak of individualism in books like The Selfish Gene is illusionary because only a subset of the species is being addressed by evolutionary ...
... individual is problematic . The seeming clarity with which evolutionary biology seems to bespeak of individualism in books like The Selfish Gene is illusionary because only a subset of the species is being addressed by evolutionary ...
Contents
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Social Selection Defined | 61 |
The Genetic System for Sex | 71 |
The Gene RECOMBINATION | 73 |
The Cell SPERM AND EGG | 89 |
The Body MALE FEMALE AND HERMAPHRODITE | 105 |
The Social System for Sex | 127 |
The Behavioral Tier | 129 |
The Evolutionary Tier | 163 |
Family Harmony and Discord | 187 |
Sharing Offspring with Neighbors | 209 |
Social versus Sexual Selection | 235 |
Index | 249 |
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