Sex and Evolution by George Christopher Williams
This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, and persists because there is no ready means of developing an asexual alternative. The book then considers the evolutionary development of diverse forms of sexuality, such as anisogamy, hermaphroditism. and the evolution of differences between males and females in reproductive strategy. The final two chapters examine the effect of genetic recombination on the evolutionary process itself.-
Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development
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Theory of Island Biogeography
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The Ecological Detective
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Food Webs and Niche Space
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Evolution in Changing Environments
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Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals
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Scaling in Ecology with a Model System
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Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects
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Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics
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A Theory of Global Biodiversity
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The Population Biology of Tuberculosis
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Geographical Genetics
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The Theory of Sex Allocation
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Populations in a Seasonal Environment
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Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution
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Some Adaptations of Marsh-Nesting Blackbirds
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The Phytochemical Landscape
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Population Ecology of Individuals
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From Populations to Ecosystems
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Food Webs
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Natural Selection in the Wild
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Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines
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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems
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The Florida Scrub Jay
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Sex Allocation
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Social Butterflies
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Fish Ecology, Evolution, and Exploitation
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Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations
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Resource Competition and Community Structure
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Quantitative Viral Ecology
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Metacommunity Ecology
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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography
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Complex Population Dynamics
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Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities
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Coexistence in Ecology
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The Theory of Ecological Communities
George C. Williams is Professor of Biological Sciences in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966) and Group Selection (Aldine-Atherton, 1971).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691081526 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691081522 |
| Title | Sex and Evolution |
| Author | George Christopher Williams |
| Series | Monographs In Population Biology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1975-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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