The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Joan Roughgarden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2009
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-25826-6 (ISBN)

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Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? This title intends to reject these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution.

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? In "The Genial Gene", Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.

Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is the author of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (UC Press), Evolution and Christian Faith, and Primer of Ecological Theory.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is Nature Selfish?
COOPERATION AND TEAMWORK
1. Sexual Selection Defined
2. The Case against Sexual Selection
3. Social Selection Defined
THE GENETIC SYSTEM FOR SEX
4. The Gene: Recombination
5. The Cell: Sperm and Egg
6. The Body: Male, Female, and Hermaphrodite
THE SOCIAL SYSTEM FOR SEX
7. The Behavioral Tier
8. The Evolutionary Tier
9. Family Harmony and Discord
10. Sharing Offspring with Neighbors
Conclusion: Social versus Sexual Selection
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.4.2009
Zusatzinfo	20 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
Schlagworte	Darwinismus • Sozialdarwinismus
ISBN-10	0-520-25826-6 / 0520258266
ISBN-13	978-0-520-25826-6 / 9780520258266
Zustand	Neuware