Levels of Selection in Evolution / / ed. by Laurent Keller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Godfray, H. Charles J.,; Herre, Edward Allen,; Keller, Laurent,; Kitchen, Dawn M.,; Leigh, Egbert Giles,; Lessells, Catherine M.,; Michod, Richard E.,; Nunney, Leonard,; Packer, Craig,; Pomiankowski, Andrew,; Reeve, H. Kern,; Smith, John Maynard,; Szathmáry, Eörs,
• HerausgeberIn: Keller, Laurent,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 66
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 halftones 11 tables 39 line illus.

Ever since the groundbreaking work of George Williams, W. D. Hamilton, and Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologists have recognized that natural selection generally does not operate for the good of the group, but rather for the good of lower-level units such as the individual, the cell, even the gen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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