The Ant and the Peacock
Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
විසින් Helena Cronin
- මෙම සංස්කරණයේ ප්රකාශන වසර: 1993
- පළමු ප්රකාශනයේ වසර: 1993
- ප්රකාශන වර්ගය: පොත
- භාෂාව: English
- ISBN-13: 9780521457651
- පුස්තකාලය: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- ඇමතුම් අංකය: QL761 .C76 1991
- ඩිවුයී (DDC): 575.01
- ප්රකාශක: Cambridge University Press
- ප්රකාශන ස්ථානය: New York
- මූලපද: Animal ecology, Evolution, Science, Science/Mathematics, Life Sciences - Biology - General, Life Sciences - Evolution, Natural selection, Science / Evolution, Science-Life Sciences - Biology - General
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.