Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex
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W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second volume of his
collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1980 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 paper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collection for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep insights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary processes.
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Text continues where volume one left off: with Hamilton's work from 1981 through 1990 and including one paper from 1991. A third and final volume is planned, which will contain the remaining papers but without the author's introductions, due to his death in March 2000. Softcover.
Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex,W. D. Hamilton,Richard Dawkins,Oxford University Press, USA,0198503369,Behavior evolution,Essays,Genetics,Life Sciences - Evolution,Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics,Medical,Science,Sexual selection in animals,Social behavior in animals,Genetics (non-medical),Life Sciences | Evolutionary Biology,Other prose: from c 1900 -,Science / Genetics
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