| 书目名称 | Did Darwin Get It Right? | | 副标题 | Essays on Games, Sex | | 编辑 | John Maynard Smith | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Now in paperback, Did Darwin Get It Right discusses some ofthe hottest issues in biology today. Its author, the eminentlyquotableJohn Maynard Smith, discusses such fascinating conundrums ashow lifebegan, whether the brain works like a computer, why mostanimals andplants reproduce sexually, and how social behaviorevolved out of thecontext of natural selection--a process whichwould seem to favorselfishness. A humorous and insightful writer,John Maynard Smith hasthe special ability to convey the excitementof science, itscomplexity and fascination, without baffling orboring his readers.In these 28 brief and accessible essays, Maynardranges widely oversuch issues as science and the media, the birth ofsociobiology, theevolution of animal intelligence and thelimitations of evolutionarytheory. For his work on the evolution ofsex, Smith won the Darwinmedal from the Royal Society, and he haspioneered the application ofgame theory to animal behavior. | | 出版日期 | Book 1988 | | 关键词 | Charles Darwin; Darwin; behavior; biology; evolution; evolutionary biology; the origin | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7862-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-0-412-03821-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-7862-4 | | copyright | John Maynard Smith 1988 |
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