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  title info:
    title: Gene Avatars
    sub title: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution
  name:
    name part: Gouyon, Pierre-Henri.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Henry, Jean-Pierre.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Arnould, Jacques.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 287 p. online resource.
  abstract: `Why life?' Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how' question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin's successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the `why' as well as the `how'. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having 'thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries'. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provided Darwinian theory with the foundations that were lacking and led to the all-embracing neo-Darwinian synthesis. Since then, Theodosius Dobzhansky's aphorism `nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution' has proven true more than once. This does not suit everyone, as evolutionist ideas have not lost their power to cause a scandal. Darwin toppled man from his pedestal. Evolutionary genetics - the subject of this book - sends the individual crashing. Considered until recently to be the target of selection and the focus of evolution, the individual has been usurped by the gene. The individual is nothing but the gene's avatar.
  table of contents: The Biologists Dream -- Waiting for Darwin -- The Darwinian Paradigm -- Population and Ecological Genetics -- The Key to Genes -- Conflict and Cooperation -- Eros and Thanatos Revisited -- What Can Be Done, What Can’t Be Done.
  note: by Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Human genetics
  subject:
    topic: Developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Human Genetics
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780306475702
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b114339
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204151432.0
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