Darwinizing Gaia
Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
Published on 3. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-262-54952-3 (ISBN)
Description
"This work aims to describe how developments in thinking on evolutionary biology require re-assessment of initial rejection of the relevance and applicability of neo-Darwinian evolution to the Gaia hypothesis"--
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
15 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54952-3 (9780262549523)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
12/2024
MIT Press
€43.99
Available for download
Person
W. Ford Doolittle
Content
Preface: Why I am writing this book
Chapter 1. The Gaia Hypothesis
Chapter 2. Some unresolved conflicts in Darwinism
Chapter 3. The derivation of the classical (Darwinian) view
Chapter 4. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: MLS1 and MLS2 and their multispecies
equivalent
Chapter 5. Holobiosis
Chapter 6. Extended phenotypes, replicators and interactors, possible solutions
Chapter 7. Lateral gene transfer, its agents and its consequences
Chapter 8. Extending extended phenotypes and the gene’s-eye view
Chapter 9. Clades: evolution by persistence
Chapter 10. Songs: evolution by recurrence
Chapter 11. Gaia 2.0
Chapter 1. The Gaia Hypothesis
Chapter 2. Some unresolved conflicts in Darwinism
Chapter 3. The derivation of the classical (Darwinian) view
Chapter 4. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: MLS1 and MLS2 and their multispecies
equivalent
Chapter 5. Holobiosis
Chapter 6. Extended phenotypes, replicators and interactors, possible solutions
Chapter 7. Lateral gene transfer, its agents and its consequences
Chapter 8. Extending extended phenotypes and the gene’s-eye view
Chapter 9. Clades: evolution by persistence
Chapter 10. Songs: evolution by recurrence
Chapter 11. Gaia 2.0