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Evolution from molecules to men / edited by D.S. Bendall on behalf of Darwin College. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1983.Description: xiii, 594 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • 9780521247535
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH359
  • QH359.D228.E965 1983
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Contents:
Darwin, intellectual revolutionary Ernst Mayr -- The development of Darwin's general biological theorizing M.J.S. Hodge -- Darwin and the nature of science D.L. Hull -- The several faces of Darwin: materialism in nineteenth and twentieth century evolutionary theory G.E. Allen -- Self-replication and molecular evolution M. Eigen -- Molecular tinkering in evolution F. Jacob -- Intimations of evolution from the three-dimensional structures of proteins District of Columbia Phillips, M.J.E. Sternberg and B.J. Sutton -- Evolution of gene families: the globin genes A.J. Jeffreys, S. Harris, P.A. Barrie, D. Wood, A. Blanchetot and S.M. Adams -- Gene clusters and genome evolution W.F. Bodmer -- The primary lines of descent and the universal ancestor C.R Woese
P.H. Clarke -- Variation as a genetic engineering process J.A. Shapiro -- Gene, organism and environment R.C. Lewontin -- Population genetics and ecology: the interface E. Nevo -- A Darwinian plant ecology J.L. Harper -- Irrelevance, submission and partnership: the changing role of palaeontology in Darwin's three centennials and a modest proposal for macroevolution S.J. Gould -- Plate tectonics and evolution A.Hallam -- Microevolution and macroevolution F.J. Ayala -- Universal Darwinism R. Dawkins -- The development of an evolutionary ethology R.W. Burkhardt -- Game theory and the evolution of cooperation J. Maynard Smith -- Selection in relation to sex T.H. Clutton-Brock
P.P.G. Bateson -- Aspects of human evolution G. Ll. Isaac -- Sociobiology and the Darwinism approach to mind and culture E.O. Wilson -- Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem Bernard Williams -- The mysterious case of Charles Darwin J. Passmore.
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Revised papers first presented at a conference entitled "Evolution of molecules and men", Darwin College, Cambridge, 27 June-2 July 1982.

Includes bibliographies and index.

How far will Darwin take us? / A.F. Huxley -- Darwin, intellectual revolutionary Ernst Mayr -- The development of Darwin's general biological theorizing M.J.S. Hodge -- Darwin and the nature of science D.L. Hull -- The several faces of Darwin: materialism in nineteenth and twentieth century evolutionary theory G.E. Allen -- Self-replication and molecular evolution M. Eigen -- Molecular tinkering in evolution F. Jacob -- Intimations of evolution from the three-dimensional structures of proteins District of Columbia Phillips, M.J.E. Sternberg and B.J. Sutton -- Evolution of gene families: the globin genes A.J. Jeffreys, S. Harris, P.A. Barrie, D. Wood, A. Blanchetot and S.M. Adams -- Gene clusters and genome evolution W.F. Bodmer -- The primary lines of descent and the universal ancestor C.R Woese

Experimental evolution P.H. Clarke -- Variation as a genetic engineering process J.A. Shapiro -- Gene, organism and environment R.C. Lewontin -- Population genetics and ecology: the interface E. Nevo -- A Darwinian plant ecology J.L. Harper -- Irrelevance, submission and partnership: the changing role of palaeontology in Darwin's three centennials and a modest proposal for macroevolution S.J. Gould -- Plate tectonics and evolution A.Hallam -- Microevolution and macroevolution F.J. Ayala -- Universal Darwinism R. Dawkins -- The development of an evolutionary ethology R.W. Burkhardt -- Game theory and the evolution of cooperation J. Maynard Smith -- Selection in relation to sex T.H. Clutton-Brock

Rules for changing the rules P.P.G. Bateson -- Aspects of human evolution G. Ll. Isaac -- Sociobiology and the Darwinism approach to mind and culture E.O. Wilson -- Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem Bernard Williams -- The mysterious case of Charles Darwin J. Passmore.

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