• 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • may refer to: Replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centered view of evolution Replicator (self-replication)...
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  • 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...
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  • biologists, outlines a gene-centered view of evolution, disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including...
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  • 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...
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    Cambrian explosion – camouflage – Sean B. Carroll – catagenesis – gene-centered view of evolution – cephalization – Sergei Chetverikov – chronobiology – chronospecies...
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    field of molecular evolution developed, based on protein sequences and immunological tests, and later incorporating RNA and DNA studies. The gene-centred...
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    Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...
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    Selfish Gene. More thorough discussions of this version of a gene can be found in the articles on Genetics and Gene-centered view of evolution. The molecular...
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  • 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...
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  • just losing and gaining. Criticism of evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology Gene-centered view of evolution Hamiltonian spite Kin selection Reproductive...
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    do evolve. The gene-centered view of evolution normally refers to selection among different alleles of the same gene. However, gene families also differ...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Prior to the gene-centered view of evolution, eusociality was seen as paradoxical: if adaptive evolution unfolds by differential reproduction of individual...
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  • compared; this is known as the substitutional load or cost of selection. Gene-centered view of evolution Inclusive fitness Lineage selection Natural selection...
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    (evolution) – Theoretical limit on rate of mutation Gene-centered view of evolution – Theory of the "selfish gene" Genome evolution – Process by which a genome changes...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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  • (biology) Co-operation (evolution) Evolution of morality Evolutionarily stable strategy Evolutionary ethics Gene-centered view of evolution Sociobiology Rescue...
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    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...
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    models of food sharing Gene-centered view of evolution Gift economy Helping behavior Iterated prisoner's dilemma Koinophilia Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution...
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  • widespread attention until several decades later. Inspired by the gene-centred views of evolution popularized by George Williams and Richard Dawkins, two papers...
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    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...
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    single unifying gene-centered view of evolution and making earlier explanations based on group selection obsolete. A classic example is that of stotting in...
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    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...
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    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...
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