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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Cronin, Helena ; Maynard Smith, John
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| Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press
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| Date: |
10/28/1993
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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The "ant" and the "peacock" stand for two puzzles in Darwinism--altruism and sexual selection. How can natural selection favor those, such as the worker ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favor of the public-spirited ways of the commune? And how can "peacocks"--flamboyant, ornamental and apparently useless--be tolerated by the grimly economical Darwinian reaper? Helena Cronin has a deep understanding of today's answers to these riddles and their roots in the nineteenth century; the analysis is new and exciting and the explanations lucid and compelling.
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