The Ant and the Peacock

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Cronin,H. 저자(글)

Cambridge University Press · 1993년 09월 19일

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This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favour of the public-spirited ways of the commune? How can it explain the peacocks tail, flamboyant and a burden to its bearer; surely selection would act against useless ornamentation? Helena Cronins enthralling account blends history, science and philosophy in a gripping tale that is scholarly, entertaining and eminently readable. The hardback edition was selected by Nature as one of the best scientific books in 1992. Also the New York Times chose it as one of their best books of 1992. The author divides her time between the Philosophy Department at the London School of Economics and the Zoology Department at Oxford.

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저자(글) Cronin,H.

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• Foreword	p. ix
  Preface	p. xi
  Darwinism, its Rivals and its Renegades
  Walking archives	p. 3
  A world without Darwin	p. 7
  1859	p. 7
  Rivals and follies: 1859 and beyond	p. 35
  Goodbye to all that	p. 47
  Darwinism old and new	p. 53
  Anticipations of things past	p. 53
  Organism to gene	p. 59
  Structures to strategists	p. 66
  Complexities and diversities	p. 79
  Demarcations of design	p. 81
  The scrapheap of chance	p. 87
  'Strange deviations tied together'	p. 93
  Artefacts of our minds	p. 106
  The Peacock
  The sting in the peacock's tail	p. 113
  Flying in the face of natural selection	p. 113
  The career of a controversy	p. 118
  Nothing but natural selection?	p. 123
  'The advocate of pure Darwinism'	p. 123
  Coloration for protection	p. 124
  Coloration for recognition	p. 129
  Explaining away display	p. 131
  Coloration without selection	p. 133
  Males for Darwin, females for Wallace?	p. 146
  Wallace's legacy: A century of natural selection	p. 155
  Can females shape males?	p. 165
  Only humans can choose	p. 165
  Not choosing, just looking	p. 167
  'The instability of a vicious feminine caprice'	p. 168
  The trouble with taste	p. 174
  Do sensible females prefer sexy males?	p. 183
  Good taste or good sense?	p. 183
  Darwin's solution: Beauty for beauty's sake	p. 183
  Wallace's solution: Not just a pretty tail	p. 186
  Is 'good sense' sensible?	p. 191
  Fisher's solution: Good taste makes good sense	p. 201
  'Until careful experiments are made ...'	p. 205
  Ghosts of Darwinism surpassed	p. 231
  The changing face of sexual selection	p. 231
  A happy ending to the peacock's tale	p. 243
  The Ant
  Altruism now	p. 253
  The problem with altruism	p. 253
  The problem solved	p. 253
  'Altruism' reanalysed	p. 264
  Altruism then	p. 267
  Nature most cruel	p. 267
  Altruism unseen	p. 274
  Altruism levelled down	p. 283
  The social insects: Kind kin	p. 293
  Make dove, not war: Conventional forces	p. 311
  Human altruism: A natural kind?	p. 325
  Darwin: Morality as natural history	p. 325
  Wallace: Wise before the event	p. 353
  Huxley: Morality at enmity with nature	p. 367
  Spencer: Darwinian bodies, Lamarckian minds	p. 371
  Rhetorical skirmishes	p. 378
  Breeding between the lines	p. 381
  The origin of species	p. 381
  Speciating for the greater good	p. 387
  Selection's great divide: Mating or weaning?	p. 390
  The problem for Darwin and Wallace	p. 395
  Darwin against creation: Incidental, not endowed	p. 400
  Darwin against natural selection: Incidental, not selected	p. 402
  Darwin's adaptive interlude	p. 407
  Wallace: The power of natural selection	p. 416
  Origins elusive	p. 425
  Epilogue	p. 431
  Note on the letters of Darwin and Wallace	p. 433
  Bibliography	p. 439
  Index	p. 475
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ISBN	9780521457651 ( 0521457653 )
발행(출시)일자	1993년 09월 19일
쪽수	508쪽
크기	152 * 232 * 30 mm / 753 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어