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Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 2: Evolution of Sex

Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 2: Evolution of Sex

Robert Axelrod
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W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical bio logist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolution ary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second vol ume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1 980 and 1991, many of them examining the role of parasites and disease in promoting genetic diversity. For each paper, Hamilton has written an accessible introduction describing why the work was done, how the p aper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collecti on for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep i nsights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary proces ses.
Pages
928
Format
Paperback
Release
December 31, 2000
ISBN 13
9780198503361

Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 2: Evolution of Sex

Robert Axelrod
0/5 ( ratings)
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W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical bio logist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolution ary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second vol ume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1 980 and 1991, many of them examining the role of parasites and disease in promoting genetic diversity. For each paper, Hamilton has written an accessible introduction describing why the work was done, how the p aper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collecti on for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep i nsights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary proces ses.
Pages
928
Format
Paperback
Release
December 31, 2000
ISBN 13
9780198503361

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