Research Catalog

Title

Evolution through group selection / V.C. Wynne-Edwards.

Author

Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner.

Publication

Oxford : Blackwell Scientific, 1986.

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Details

Description

xi, 386 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Evolution
• Natural selection
• Adaptation (Biology)
• Evolution
• Selection (Genetics)
• Adaptation, Biological
• Selection, Genetic
• 42.21 evolution
• Natural selection
• Natürliche Auslese
• Gruppenverhalten
• Selektionstheorie
• Evolutie
• Natuurlijke selectie
• Sociobiologie
• Populatiedynamica
• Group selection (Evolution)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An outline of the ‘animal dispersion’ hypothesis : The regulation of animal numbers ; My own hypothesis ; Social system -- Food as a limiting resource : Food production ; The overfishing phenomenon -- Food is not always the limiting factor : Alternative limiting resources ; Alternative limitation by predators ; Alternative limitation by parasites and disease ; Climate has a destabilizing effect ; The equation of recruitment and loss in a population -- The three trophic industries : Their interdependence ; What controls the numbers in each industry? ; Homeostasis benefits animals whatever their trophic industry -- Exploiting seeds, fruit, and nectar : Seed-eating ; Fruit as a food resource ; Frugivores must limit their numbers ; Food gluts, defendable food sources and undefendable ones ; Nectar as food -- General relationships affecting consumers : Food resource conservation ; Syntrophism, or the exploitation of the same population of food organisms by different species of consumers -- The red grouse : A short history ; Lagopus lagopus scoticus ; The red grouse as a research animal -- Territory and food : Territoriality and the spring sex ration determine the breeding density ; Individual territory size, aggression, and some endocrine experiments ; Food and nutrition as ultimate determinants of mean territory size -- More field experiments : Experiments with ‘shoot-outs ; Mineral fertilizers, and the uptake of nutrients by grouse ; Why are grouse more selective in their winter feeding? ; Broadcast fertilizer trials -- Food and breeding success : Female nutrition, eggs, chicks and their survival ; Is the mean reproductive output per pair subject to homeostasis? -- General factors that react on territory size : The social hierarchy and plane of nutrition are independent factors ; Year-cohorts of males and mean territory size -- Do inertial cycles play a part in population change? The Kerloch fluctuation ; A possible function -- A review and commentary on the red grouse research : Population density is self-regulated ; The plane of nutrition as the ultimate factor ; Social selection -- Cycles in population structure : Structuring in red grouse populations ; Population cycles in grouse ; Population cycles of microtine rodents ; Population cycles of hares ; The function of intrinsic cycles ; Dependent predator cycles -- Evolution in structured populations : Vertebrates in general have structured populations ; Wright’s theory of the shifting balance process ; Laboratory experiments on group selection ; A model of population structuring -- Population structuring as a group adaption : Sexual difference in philopatry in birds and mammals ; Two ancillary adaptations that increase genetic quality and reduce effective group size ; Genetic structuring in the Atlantic salmon -- Population structuring in the invertebrate phyla: Two gastropod molluscs ; The Allee effect -- Population structuring and homeostasis in platyhelminth parasites : The trophic status of parasites ; The schistosomes ; Tapeworms ; Dispersion of parasite populations ; Homeostasis and structuring for helminth populations -- Group selection at different organizational levels : Group selection can override individual selection ; D.S. Wilson’s model of group selection ; Community integration and selection ; Biospheric homeostasis and Lovelock’s ‘Gaia’ hypothesis ; Kin selection -- Some problems solved : Eusocial cooperation and group selection ; The sexes as cooperative castes ; The resource management syndrome ; The genetic management syndrome ; What constitutes fitness?.

ISBN

• 0632015411
• 9780632015412
• 063201539X
• 9780632015399
• 063205139X (canceled/invalid)
• 0632051411 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocm13064276
• 13064276
• SCSB-1157185

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library