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evolutionary transitions in fitness and individuality
In this book, Richard Michod offers a fresh, dynamical interpretation of evolution and fitness concepts. He argues that evolution has no enduring products; what matters is the process of genetic change. Whereas many biologists have focused on competition and aggression as determining factors in survival, Michod, by concentrating on the emergence of individuality at new and more complex levels, finds that cooperation plays an even greater role.
The Language of Selection -- Darwinian Dynamics -- Major Evolutionary Transitions -- Cooperation and Conflict -- Fisherian Fitness -- Deconstructing Fitness -- Selection as Fitness Covariance -- Mathematical Models -- Adequacy Criterion for Understanding Fitness -- Definitions of Basic Concepts -- Origin of Fitness -- Complementarity -- Spontaneous Creation -- Self-Replication and the Origin of Fitness -- Replicator Dynamics -- Design Analysis of Molecular Replicator -- Life History Evolution -- Survival of the Fittest -- Survival of Anybody -- The First Individuals -- Origin of Gene Networks -- Cooperation and Conflict -- Survival of the First -- Evolutionary Transitions Are Inherently Nonlinear -- Origin of Hypercycles -- Quasispecies -- Population Structure -- Kin Selection in Evolutionary Transitions -- Conflict Mediation through Individuality -- Further Evolution of the Cell -- Heritable Capacities of Single Cells -- Reconsidering Adaptedness and Fitness -- Early Transitions in Evolution -- Evolution of Interactions -- Gene Frequency Change -- Population Growth -- Frequency-Dependent Selection -- Constant Selection -- Adaptive Topography -- Frequency Dependence Decouples Fitness in a Selection Hierarchy -- Selection as Covariance -- Fisher's Fundamental Theorem -- Evolution in Hierarchically Structured Populations -- Evolution of Multicellular Organisms -- Kin Selection -- Game Theory -- Modification of Genetic Constraints -- Population Dynamics and Natural Selection -- Fitness Minima -- Prisoner's Dilemma.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.