Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities
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Adaptive radiation
Adaptive value
Allele
Apex predator
Author_Michael E. Gilpin
Biological interaction
Cannibalism (zoology)
Carnivore
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Charles Darwin
Coevolution
Commensalism
Competition
Cooperative hunting
Counterexample
Darwinism
Ecology
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Estimation
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary dynamics
Expected value
Extinction
Extinction threshold
Food chain
Founder effect
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Genetic structure
Genotype
Group selection
Infanticide
Infanticide (zoology)
Infectivity
Intraspecific competition
Invertebrate
Isocline
Kin selection
Limit cycle
Limit set
Local adaptation
Lotka-Volterra equations
Mendelian inheritance
Metapopulation
Natural selection
Negative feedback
Obedience (human behavior)
On the Origin of Species
Overexploitation
Parasitism
Pathogen
Phenotypic trait
Pheromone
Philopatry
Polymorphism (biology)
Population
Population genetics
Population size
Predation
Predator satiation
Probability
Psychology
Refugium (population biology)
Selection coefficient
Self-stabilization
Sensitivity analysis
Sexual reproduction
Social behavior
State variable
Territory (animal)
Trade-off
Ultimate fate of the universe
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- ISBN 9780691081618
- Weight: 142g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1975
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Many animals regulate their population density by patterns of behavior that would be easy to explain if the forces of natural selection acted to optimize group properties. But Darwinian selection acts on individuals, not groups, and most simple theories have shown group selection to be too slow ever to oppose individual selection successfully. In this book Michael Gilpin presents a model, based on predator-prey dynamics, wherein nonlinear effects are important, so that small advantages to the selfish individual are nonlinearly amplified into disaster for his group. The result is that group selection can be rapid and powerful. Of course many instances of apparent group selection can be explained by kin selection; in other cases, close examination reveals that seemingly altruistic behavior directly benefits the individual genotype as well as the group. The value of the monograph is that it provides a robust model in which group selection, pure and unadulterated, can be seen to work.
