Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 2: Evolution of Sex

ISBN-13: 9780198503361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 928 str.

W. D. Hamilton

Opis

W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical bio logist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolution ary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second vol ume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1 980 and 1991, many of them examining the role of parasites and disease in promoting genetic diversity. For each paper, Hamilton has written an accessible introduction describing why the work was done, how the p aper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collecti on for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep i nsights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary proces ses.

Recenzje

The papers in the book are already classics of scientific research, and the introductions deserve to become classics of scientific autobiography" (From the review of Volume 1 in Nature).

O autorze

W. D. Hamilton is one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century and is widely regarded as the most important theoretical innovator in the evolutionary study of behaviour since Darwin. He is known throughout the world for his seminal work on social evolution (kin selection), sex ratio evolution and, more recently, for work on the involvement of parasites in sexual selection and on the evolutionary maintenance of sexuality. A Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hamilton is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Zoology Department at Oxford University. His awards include the Albert Wander Foundation Prize (Switzerland, 1992), the Crafoord Prize (Sweden, 1993), and the Kyoto Prize (Japan, 1993).