W. Ford Doolittle

Darwinizing Gaia

Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This work aims to describe how developments in thinking on evolutionary biology require re-assessment of initial rejection of the relevance and applicability of neo-Darwinian evolution to the Gaia hypothesis"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780262549523
• ISBN-10: 0262549522
• Artikelnr.: 71654449

Autorenporträt

W. Ford Doolittle directed the Evolutionary Biology Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for 20 years and received the 2013 Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, Canada’s top science prize, and the Killam Prize of the Canada Council, Canada’s second most coveted award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada and the United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Why I am writing this book
Chapter 1. The Gaia Hypothesis
Chapter 2. Some unresolved conflicts in Darwinism
Chapter 3. The derivation of the classical (Darwinian) view
Chapter 4. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: MLS1 and MLS2 and
their multispecies
equivalent
Chapter 5. Holobiosis
Chapter 6. Extended phenotypes, replicators and interactors, possible
solutions
Chapter 7. Lateral gene transfer, its agents and its consequences
Chapter 8. Extending extended phenotypes and the gene’s-eye view
Chapter 9. Clades: evolution by persistence
Chapter 10. Songs: evolution by recurrence
Chapter 11. Gaia 2.0