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The theory of evolution / John Maynard Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Knjižnica CantoPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.Edition: Canto edDescription: xxii 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0521451280
  • 9780521451284
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 575.0162 20
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Contents:
Introduction to the Canto edition -- Adaptation -- Theory of natural selection -- Heredity -- Weismann, Lamarck, and the central dogma -- Molecular evolution -- Origin and early evolution of life -- Structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action -- Variation -- Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies -- Natural selection in wild populations -- Protein polymorphism -- Altruism, social behaviour, and sex -- What are species? -- Origins of species -- What keeps species distinct? -- Genetics of species differences -- Fossil evidence -- Evolution and development -- Evolution and history.
Summary: All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-347) and index.

Introduction to the Canto edition -- Adaptation -- Theory of natural selection -- Heredity -- Weismann, Lamarck, and the central dogma -- Molecular evolution -- Origin and early evolution of life -- Structure of chromosomes and the control of gene action -- Variation -- Artificial selection: some experiments with fruitflies -- Natural selection in wild populations -- Protein polymorphism -- Altruism, social behaviour, and sex -- What are species? -- Origins of species -- What keeps species distinct? -- Genetics of species differences -- Fossil evidence -- Evolution and development -- Evolution and history.

All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.

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