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The genial gene : deconstructing Darwinian selfishness
- Author
- Roughgarden, Joan.
- Title
- The genial gene : deconstructing Darwinian selfishness / Joan Roughgarden.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Description
- ix, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Sexual selection defined
- The case against sexual selection
- Social selection defined
- The gene : recombination
- The cell : sperm and egg
- The body : male, female and hermaphrodite
- The behavioral tier
- The evolutionary tier
- Family harmony and discord
- Sharing offspring with neighbors
- Conclusion : social versus sexual selection.
- Kinsey subjects
- Animal sex behavior. Biological anthropology. Animal social structure. Reproduction.
- ISBN
- 9780520258266 (case : alk. paper) 0520258266 (case : alk. paper) 9780520265936 (pbk.) 0520265939 (pbk.)