Darwin's Spectre (eBook)

Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World

Michael R. Rose (Autor)

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2000 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2263-8 (ISBN)

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RoseMichael R.:

Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2000
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation and Natural Selection • Behavior • Behavioral modernity • Biological constraints • Biological Determinism • Biology • bird • Blending inheritance • Calculation • Charles Darwin • child bride • circular reasoning • Creation Science • Criticism of evolutionary psychology • Darwinism • Darwin on Trial • Death • Directional selection • Emerging Technologies • E. O. Wilson • Erasmus Darwin • Ernst Haeckel • Ethology • Eugenics • Eugenics in the United States • euthanasia • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary Psychology • Evolution of ageing • Evolution of Infectious Disease • Evolution of sexual reproduction • Genetics and the Origin of Species • Herbert Spencer • heredity • human behavior • Human evolution (origins of society and culture) • Inbreeding • Incest • infanticide • invisible Hand • J. B. S. Haldane • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • John Maynard Smith • Jonathan Weiner • Joseph Priestley • Julian Jaynes • just-so story • Karl Pearson • kin selection • Konrad Lorenz • lamarckism • Machiavellian intelligence • Marshall Sahlins • mating • Mendelian Inheritance • Mutationism • Natural selection • Objections to evolution • ON HUMAN NATURE • Oppression • organism • paleobiology • pangenesis • pathogen • Psychopathy • Quantitative genetics • racial hygiene • Racism • Rate of evolution • Recapitulation theory • reproductive isolation • Robert Nozick • Ronald Fisher • scopes trial • Sexual Preference (book) • Sexual Selection • Social Darwinism • Sociobiology • Speciation • Spontaneous Generation • State of nature • Superiority (short story) • The Adapted Mind • The Beak of the Finch • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Evolution of Desire • The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection • the theory of evolution • Thomas Henry Huxley • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Thomas Robert Malthus • Thought • Transmutation of species • Utilitarianism • W. D. Hamilton • william bateson • william paley • worker bee • Zoonomia
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2263-7 / 1400822637
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2263-8 / 9781400822638