[PDF.70eb] The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

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 | #781810 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1993-09-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.03 x1.14 x6.26l,1.66 | File type: PDF | 508 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Make dove not war|By Laurence Chalem|That's a title of one of the chapters and one of the messages of the book THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK. One of the more challenging concepts to explain was altruism; after all, the theory that was called "Survival of the fittest," which was borrowed by Wallace from Spencer and eventually made its way to Darwin's Origin of the Species in the fift

The "ant" and the "peacock" stand for two puzzles in Darwinism--altruism and sexual selection. How can natural selection favor those, such as the worker ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favor of the public-spirited ways of the commune? And how can "peacocks"--flamboyant, ornamental and apparently useless--be tolerated by the grimly economical Darwinian reaper? Helena Cronin has a deep understanding of today's answers to these riddles and their roots in the nineteenth...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today   |  Helena Cronin. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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