A01=Michael R. Rose
Adaptation and Natural Selection
and Selection in Relation to Sex
Author_Michael R. Rose
Behavioral modernity
Biological constraints
Biological determinism
Blending inheritance
Calculation
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Charles Darwin
Child Bride
Creation science
Criticism of evolutionary psychology
Darwin on Trial
Darwinism
E. O. Wilson
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Erasmus Darwin
Ernst Haeckel
Eugenics
Eugenics in the United States
Euthanasia
Evolution
Evolution of Infectious Disease
Evolution of sexual reproduction
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary psychology
Herbert Spencer
Heredity
Human behavior
Human evolution (origins of society and culture)
Inbreeding
Incest
Infanticide
J. B. S. Haldane
Jonathan Weiner
Joseph Priestley
Just-so story
Karl Pearson
Kin selection
Lamarckism
Mating
Mendelian inheritance
Mutationism
Natural selection
Objections to evolution
On Human Nature
Oppression
Organism
Pangenesis
Pathogen
Psychopathy
Racial hygiene
Racism
Recapitulation theory
Reproductive isolation
Ronald Fisher
Scopes Trial
Sexual Preference (book)
Social Darwinism
Sociobiology
Speciation
Spontaneous generation
Superiority (short story)
The Beak of the Finch
The Descent of Man
The Evolution of Desire
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Robert Malthus
Transmutation of species
Utilitarianism
W. D. Hamilton
William Bateson
Product details
- ISBN 9780691050089
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago--Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Far from an antique idea restricted to the nineteenth century, the theory of evolution is one of the most potent concepts in all of modern science. In Darwin's Spectre, Michael Rose provides the general reader with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. First comes a brief biographical sketch of Darwin. Next, Rose gives a primer on the three most important concepts in evolutionary theory--variation, selection, and adaptation. With a firm grasp of these concepts, the reader is ready to look at modern applications of evolutionary theory. Discussing agriculture, Rose shows how even before Darwin farmers and ranchers unknowingly experimented with evolution. Medical research, however, has ignored Darwin's lessons until recently, with potentially grave consequences.
Finally, evolution supplies important new vantage points on human nature. If humans weren't created by deities, then our nature may be determined more by evolution than we have understood. Or it may not be. In this question, as in many others, the Darwinian perspective is one of the most important for understanding human affairs in the modern world. Darwin's Spectre explains how evolutionary biology has been used to support both valuable applied research, particularly in agriculture, and truly frightening objectives, such as Nazi eugenics. Darwin's legacy has been a comfort and a scourge. But it has never been irrelevant.
Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.
