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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... monogamous with threats to mate elsewhere or keep him busy with her passionate sexuality , or she may succumb to sexual violence and coercion directed against her be- cause she " wins by losing , " as one biologist put it . And so on ...
... monogamous with threats to mate elsewhere or keep him busy with her passionate sexuality , or she may succumb to sexual violence and coercion directed against her be- cause she " wins by losing , " as one biologist put it . And so on ...
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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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