The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential... 32 KB (3,858 words) - 10:01, 12 October 2023 |
gene may refer to: Selfish gene theory, the gene-centered view of evolution The Selfish Gene, a book by Richard Dawkins discussing the selfish gene theory... 575 bytes (115 words) - 22:33, 9 August 2022 |
George Christopher Williams (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences) development of the gene-centered view of evolution in the 1960s. Williams' 1957 paper Pleiotropy, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Senescence is one of the... 20 KB (1,905 words) - 13:47, 18 February 2024 |
Group selection (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links) J.B.S. Haldane proposed the concept of kin selection, a form of altruism from the gene-centered view of evolution, arguing that animals should sacrifice... 55 KB (6,202 words) - 20:12, 6 February 2024 |
may refer to: Replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centered view of evolution Replicator (self-replication)... 1 KB (163 words) - 22:58, 10 March 2024 |
Formalizing the gene-centered view of evolution Adv. Complex Syst. 2 (3) 277-281 (1999). D. Harmon, B. Stacey, Y. Bar-Yam, Y. Bar-Yam, Networks of economic market... 15 KB (1,586 words) - 03:10, 6 September 2023 |
Adaptation and Natural Selection (redirect from Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought) biologists, outlines a gene-centered view of evolution, disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including... 6 KB (596 words) - 18:19, 19 March 2024 |
W. D. Hamilton (redirect from Narrow Roads of Gene Land) existence of altruism, an insight that was a key part of the development of the gene-centered view of evolution. He is considered one of the forerunners of sociobiology... 30 KB (3,372 words) - 09:50, 26 March 2024 |
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes... 238 KB (24,652 words) - 09:39, 26 March 2024 |
Cistron (category Genes) defines replicators, more general than cistrons and genes, in this gene-centered view of evolution. For example, suppose a mutation at a chromosome position... 5 KB (613 words) - 15:33, 22 February 2024 |
Inclusive fitness (redirect from Altruism gene) just losing and gaining. Criticism of evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology Gene-centered view of evolution Hamiltonian spite Kin selection Reproductive... 33 KB (4,238 words) - 03:58, 25 December 2023 |
Modern synthesis (20th century) (category History of evolutionary biology) Developmental systems theory Gene-centered view of evolution History of evolutionary thought Neo-Darwinism Objections to evolution Also known variously as... 74 KB (7,655 words) - 13:50, 18 January 2024 |
the rise of the gene-centered view of evolution, spurred by George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966). Debate over units of selection... 31 KB (4,139 words) - 05:01, 22 December 2023 |
Eusociality (redirect from Ecology of eusociality) Prior to the gene-centered view of evolution, eusociality was seen as paradoxical: if adaptive evolution unfolds by differential reproduction of individual... 65 KB (7,180 words) - 22:09, 25 March 2024 |
Fitness (biology) (redirect from Fitness (evolution)) compared; this is known as the substitutional load or cost of selection. Gene-centered view of evolution Inclusive fitness Lineage selection Natural selection... 13 KB (1,757 words) - 13:18, 20 February 2024 |
Mobbing (animal behavior) (section Evolution) increasingly studied with the gene-centered view of evolution by considering inclusive fitness (the carrying on of one's genes through one's family members)... 23 KB (2,695 words) - 02:29, 20 February 2024 |
Green-beard effect (redirect from Greenbeard Gene Theory) through the gene-centered view of evolution, which emphasizes an interpretation of natural selection from the point of view of the gene which acts as... 13 KB (1,558 words) - 02:28, 23 March 2024 |
Altruism (biology) (redirect from Evolution of Altruism) (biology) Co-operation (evolution) Evolution of morality Evolutionarily stable strategy Evolutionary ethics Gene-centered view of evolution Sociobiology Rescue... 55 KB (6,493 words) - 10:03, 13 January 2024 |
The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to... 81 KB (9,674 words) - 21:47, 13 March 2024 |
Selfish genetic element (redirect from Parasitic gene) widespread attention until several decades later. Inspired by the gene-centred views of evolution popularized by George Williams and Richard Dawkins, two papers... 82 KB (10,232 words) - 07:07, 22 February 2024 |
Animal communication (redirect from Evolution of animal communication) pressures acting solely on the individual. A gene-centered view of evolution proposes that behaviours that enabled a gene to become wider established within a... 85 KB (10,095 words) - 07:59, 14 March 2024 |
Protein splicing (section Types of inteins) parasitic. According to the gene centered view of evolution, most genes are "selfish" only insofar as to compete with other genes or alleles but usually they... 31 KB (3,821 words) - 22:43, 17 December 2023 |
Altruism (redirect from Religious views on altruism) concepts to the study of the family Gene-centered view of evolution – Theory of the "selfish gene" Golden Rule – Principle of treating others as one wants to... 89 KB (10,584 words) - 03:54, 25 March 2024 |