Narrow Roads of Gene Land: Volume 2: Evolution of Sex

Zusatztext 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). Informationen zum Autor 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 ofthe 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 KyotoPrize (Japan, 1993). Klappentext W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second volume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1980 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 paper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collection for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep insights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary processes. Zusammenfassung The second volume of the collected papers of W D Hamilton, the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. Volume 1, The Evolution of Social Behaviour (OUP, still in print), was devoted to the first half of Hamilton's life's work; Volume 2 is devoted to the other half, on sex and sexual selection. Each paper is accompanied by a specially-written autobiographical introduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ghosts of the Museum; 2. Messing the Plotter; 3. Unequal Cousins; 4. Best and Worst Hotels; 5. 'Sex Itself'; 6. Bright Birds; 7. Man of the Sand-dune Tel; 8. At the World's Crossroads; 9. Bishop Wykeham on Evolution; 10. Land of the Rising Sun; 11. Being Rare and Successful; 12. The Hospitals are Coming; 13. Cited but Little Read; 14. Wind in the Baobabs; 15. Time Like a Dripping Tap; 16. The Three Queens; 17. Uccello/Othello; 18. Health and Horsemen; APPENDICES; OUR PAPER THEN AND NOW; FURTHER EVIDENCE ...

Autorentext
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).

Klappentext
W.D. Hamilton is considered by many the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. He has made major discoveries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and social behavior, and his essays continue to exert tremendous influence throughout the discipline. This second volume of his collected papers focuses on his groundbreaking work on sex and sexual selection. It contains the 18 papers he published between 1980 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 paper came to be written, and its eventual fate. An invaluable collection for biologists, this book also provides general readers with deep insights into the sometimes surprising mechanics of evolutionary processes.

Zusammenfassung
The second volume of the collected papers of W D Hamilton, the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. Volume 1, The Evolution of Social Behaviour (OUP, still in print), was devoted to the first half of Hamilton's life's work; Volume 2 is devoted to the other half, on sex and sexual selection. Each paper is accompanied by a specially-written autobiographical introduction.

Inhalt
1: Ghosts of the Museum
2: Messing the Plotter
3: Unequal Cousins
4: Best and Worst Hotels
5: 'Sex Itself'
6: Bright Birds
7: Man of the Sand-dune Tel
8: At the World's Crossroads
9: Bishop Wykeham on Evolution
10: Land of the Rising Sun
11: Being Rare and Successful
12: The Hospitals are Coming
13: Cited but Little Read
14: Wind in the Baobabs
15: Time Like a Dripping Tap
16: The Three Queens
17: Uccello/Othello
18: Health and Horsemen
Appendices:
Our Paper Then and Now
Further Evidence

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