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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://warnerpacific.worldcat.org/oclc/649700151 Title: The major transitions in evolution revisited Author: Brett Calcott; Kim Sterelny; Eörs Szathmáry Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011. ISBN/ISSN: 9780262015240 0262015242 OCLC:649700151

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The major transitions in evolution revisited

Author:	Brett Calcott; Kim Sterelny; Eörs Szathmáry
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:	Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.

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Named Person:	John Maynard Smith; Eörs Szathmáry; John Maynard Smith; Eörs Szathmáry
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Brett Calcott; Kim Sterelny; Eörs Szathmáry Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780262015240 0262015242
OCLC Number:	649700151
Description:	x, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction : a dynamic view of evolution / Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny -- The miscellaneous transitions in evolution / Daniel W. McShea and Carl Simpson -- Alternative patterns of explanation for major transitions / Brett Calcott -- Biological ontology and hierarchical organization : a defense of rank freedom / Samir Okasha -- Darwinian populations and transitions in individuality / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Evolvability reconsidered / Kim Sterelny -- To be or not to be : where is self-preservation in evolutionary theory? / Pamela Lyon -- The evolution of restraint in structured populations : setting the stage for an egalitarian major transition / Benjamin Kerr and Joshua Nahum -- Conflicts among levels of selection as fuel for the evolution of individuality / Paul B. Rainey and Benjamin Kerr -- Evolutionary transitions in individuality : multicellularity and sex / Richard E. Michod -- How many levels are there? : how insights from evolutionary transitions in individuality help measure the hierarchical complexity of life / Carl Simpson -- Plant individuality and multilevel selection theory / Ellen Clarke -- Phylogenetic, functional, and geological perspectives on complex multicellularity / Andrew H. Knoll and David Hewitt -- The small picture approach to the big picture : using DNA sequences to investigate the diversification of animal body plans / Lindell Bromham -- Concluding remarks / Eörs Szathmáry and Chrisantha Fernando.
Series Title:	Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Responsibility:	edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny.
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"Calcott and Sterelny deserve our thanks for bringing together a renowned group of philosophers and evolutionary biologists to revisit a recent classic with a fair yet critical tone that also treats Read more...

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