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Author_Richard E. Michod
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Charles Darwin
Coevolution
Darwinism
Directional selection
Emergence
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Evolution
Evolution of dominance
Evolution of sexual reproduction
Evolutionary biology
Fecundity
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
Fitness (biology)
Fitness function
Fitness model (network theory)
Fluctuating asymmetry
Frequency-dependent selection
Gamete
Gene
Gene dosage
Genetic association
Genetic drift
Genetic equilibrium
Genetic linkage
Genetic recombination
Genetic redundancy
Genetic variance
Genotype
Genotype frequency
Germline
Group selection
Heredity
Heritability
Hypercycle (chemistry)
Inbreeding
Inclusive fitness
Kin selection
Linkage disequilibrium
Local adaptation
Mate choice
Meiotic drive
Muller's ratchet
Multicellular organism
Mutation rate
Mutation-selection balance
Natural selection
Organism
Overdominance
Ploidy
Population genetics
Population size
Price equation
Protocell
Quantitative genetics
Reciprocal altruism
Reproductive success
Reproductive system
Reproductive value (population genetics)
Ronald Fisher
Selection coefficient
Selfing
Survival of the fittest
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Selfish Gene
Unit of selection
W. D. Hamilton
Weak Selection
Zygote
Product details
- ISBN 9780691050119
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among evolutionary biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory power coming under attack. In this book, Richard Michod offers a fresh, dynamical interpretation of evolution and fitness concepts. He argues that evolution has no enduring products; what matters is the process of genetic change. Whereas many biologists have focused on competition and aggression as determining factors in survival, Michod, by concentrating on the emergence of individuality at new and more complex levels, finds that cooperation plays even a greater role. Michod first considers the principles behind the hierarchically nested levels of organization that constitute life: genes, chromosomes, genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, and societies. By examining the evolutionary transitions from the molecular level up to the whole organism, the author explains how cooperation and conflict in a multilevel setting leads to new levels of fitness. He builds a model of fitness drawing on recent developments in ecology and multilevel selection theory and on new explanations of the origin of life.
Michod concludes with a discussion of the philosophical implications of his theory of fitness, a theory that addresses the most fundamental and unique concept in all of biology.
Richard E. Michod is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Eros and Evolution: A Natural Philosophy of Sex. Among the volumes he has coedited are Evolution of Sex: An Examination of Current Ideas and The Origin of Values.
