
Levels of Selection in Evolution
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Recent studies show that at many levels of biological organization, mechanisms have evolved to prevent potential conflict in natural selection. Editor Laurent Keller's aim in this book is to bring together leading researchers from all biological disciplines to outline these potential conflicts and discuss how they are resolved. A multi-level approach of this kind allows important insights into the evolution of life, as well as bridging the long-standing conceptual chasm between molecular and organismal biologists. The chapters here follow a rigorous theoretical framework, giving the book an overall synergy that is unique to multi-authored books.
The contributors, in addition to the editor, are H. Charles J. Godfray, Edward Allen Herre, Dawn M. Kitchen, Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., Catherine M. Lessells, Richard E. Michod, Leonard Nunney, Craig Packer, Andrew Pomiankowski, H. Kern Reeve, John Maynard Smith, and Eörs Szathmáry.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Levels of Selection: Burying the Units-of-Selection Debate and Unearthing the Crucial New Issues
- 2 Levels of Selection, Potential Conflicts, and Their Resolution: The Role of the "Common Good"
- 3 The First Replicators
- 4 Individuality, Immortality, and Sex
- 5 Sexual Conflict in Animals
- 6 Parent-Offspring Conflict
- 7 Intragenomic Conflict
- 8 Dynamics of Conflicts within Insect Societies
- 9 Complexity in Vertebrate Societies
- 10 Conflict and Cooperation in Human Societies
- 11 Laws Governing Species Interactions? Encouragement and Caution from Figs and Their Associates
- 12 Lineage Selection: Natural Selection for Long-Term Benefit
- Literature Cited
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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