Gene Avatars The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution /

• Main Authors: Gouyon, Pierre-Henri (Author), Henry, Jean-Pierre (Author), Arnould, Jacques (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Human genetics.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Nature conservation.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Human Genetics.; Developmental Biology.; History, general.; Nature Conservation.

`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 adm...

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.