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The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution by J. Arvid Agren (2023, Trade Paperback)

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'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn't enough, he gets it right.' (Richard Dawkins) To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin elegantly showed how a purely mechanistic process can achieve this striking feature of nature. Since then, the way many biologists have thought about evolution and natural selection is as a theory about individual organisms. Over a century later, a subtle but radical shift in perspective emerged with the gene's-eye view of evolution in which natural selection was conceptualized as a struggle between genes for replication and transmission to the next generation. This viewpoint culminated with the publication of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Oxford University Press, 1976) and is now commonly referred to as selfish gene thinking.The gene's-eye view has subsequently played a central role in evolutionary biology, although it continues to attract controversy. The central aim of this accessible book is to show how the gene's-eye view differs from the traditional organismal account of evolution, trace its historical origins, clarify typical misunderstandings and, by using examples from contemporary experimental work, show why so many evolutionary biologists still consider it an indispensable heuristic. The book concludes by discussing how selfish gene thinking fits into ongoing debates in evolutionary biology, and what they tell us about the future of the gene's-eye view of evolution.The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution is suitable for graduate-level students taking courses in evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary genetics, as well as professional researchers in these fields. It will also appeal to a broader, interdisciplinary audience from the social sciences and humanities including philosophers and historians of science.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192872591
ISBN-13
9780192872593
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12058353087

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Book Title
Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
Author
J. Arvid Agren
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz

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Qh390
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'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn't enough, he gets it right.'
Table of Content
PrefaceIntroduction: A New Way to Read Nature1. Historical Origins2. Defining and Refining Selfish Genes3. Difficulties of the Theory4. Inclusive Fitness and Hamilton's Rule5. Empirical ImplicationsConclusion: The Gene's-Eye View Today
Lccn
2021-931952
Dewey Decimal
572.838
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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