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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today Book

How can natural selection favor the ant that "renounces tooth and claw" or tolerate the ornamental and apparently useless peacock? Contemporary answers to these riddles and their nineteenth century roots are analyzed in a text geared to the general reader as well as the professional.Read More

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    The "ant" and the "peacock" stand for two puzzles in Darwinism--altruism and sexual selection. How can natural selection favor those, such as the worker ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favor of the public-spirited ways of the commune? And how can "peacocks"--flamboyant, ornamental and apparently useless--be tolerated by the grimly economical Darwinian reaper? Helena Cronin has a deep understanding of today's answers to these riddles and their roots in the nineteenth century; the analysis is new and exciting and the explanations lucid and compelling.

  • 052132937X
  • 9780521329378
  • Helena Cronin
  • 20 February 1992
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 504
  • illustrated edition
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