Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Maynard Smith, John. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1988.
Edición:1st ed. 1988.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7862-4
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Science, Ideology and Myth
  • 1. How to win the Nobel Prize
  • 2. Storming the Fortress
  • 3. Symbolism and Chance
  • 4. Science and the Media
  • 5. Molecules are not Enough
  • 6. Science, Ideology and Myth
  • 2 On Human Nature
  • 7. The Birth of Sociobiology
  • 8. Models of Cultural and Genetic Change (written with N. Warren)
  • 9. Constraints on Human Behaviour
  • 10. Biology and the Behaviour of Man
  • 11. Tinkering
  • 12. Boy or Girl
  • 13. Genes and Memes
  • 14. Natural Selection of Culture?
  • 3 Did Darwin get it Right?
  • 15. Palaeontology at the High Table
  • 16. Current Controversies in Evolutionary Biology
  • 17. Did Darwin get it Right?
  • 18. Do we need a new Evolutionary Paradigm?
  • 4 Games, Sex and Evolution
  • 19. Why Sex?
  • 20. The Limitations of Evolution Theory
  • 21. The Evolution of Animal Intelligence
  • 22. Evolution and the Theory of Games
  • 5 The Laws of the Game
  • 23. The Counting Problem
  • 24. Understanding Science
  • 25. Matchsticks, Brains and Curtain Rings
  • 26. Hypercycles and the Origin of Life
  • 27. Popper’s World
  • 28. Rottenness is All
  • Acknowledgements.