Darwinizing Gaia : Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution by W. Ford Doolittle (2024, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262549522
ISBN-139780262549523
eBay Product ID (ePID)23065353116
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Book TitleDarwinizing Gaia : Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Biology
GenreScience
AuthorW. Ford Doolittle
Book SeriesVienna Series in Theoretical Biology Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-057522
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240125
Dewey Decimal570.1
Table Of ContentPreface: Why I am writing this book Chapter 1. The Gaia Hypothesis Chapter 2. Some unresolved conflicts in Darwinism Chapter 3. The derivation of the classical (Darwinian) view Chapter 4. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: MLS1 and MLS2 and their multispecies equivalent Chapter 5. Holobiosis Chapter 6. Extended phenotypes, replicators and interactors, possible solutions Chapter 7. Lateral gene transfer, its agents and its consequences Chapter 8. Extending extended phenotypes and the gene's-eye view Chapter 9. Clades: evolution by persistence Chapter 10. Songs: evolution by recurrence Chapter 11. Gaia 2.0
SynopsisA reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution. First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory problematic. In Darwinizing Gaia , W. Ford Doolittle, one of evolutionary and molecular biology's most prestigious thinkers, reformulates what evolution by natural selection is while legitimizing the controversial Gaia Hypothesis. As the first book attempting to reconcile Gaia with Darwinian thinking, and the first on persistence-based evolution, Doolittle's clear, innovative position broadens evolutionary theory by offering potential remedies for Gaia's theoretical challenges. Unquestionably, the current "polycrisis" is the most complex that Homo sapiens has ever faced, and this book can help overcome the widespread belief that evolutionary biologists don't believe Lovelock. Written in the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene , Darwinizing Gaia will appeal to students, evolutionary scientists, philosophers, and microbiologists, as well as environmentalists seeking to understand the Earth as a system, at a time when climate change has drawn our planet's structure and function into sharp relief., A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution., First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock's Gala hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory problematic. In Darwinizing Gaia, W. Ford Doolittle, one of evolutionary and molecular biology's most prestigious thinkers, reformulates what evolution by natural selection is while legitimizing the controversial Gaia hypothesis. As the first book attempting to reconcile Gaia with Darwinian thinking, and the first on persistence-based evolution, Doolittle's clear, innovative position broadens evolutionary theory by offering potential remedies for Gaia's theoretical challenges.
LC Classification NumberQH331.D666 2024
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