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in this broad and highly readable inquiry, Robert Wesson proposes an approach to evolution that is more in harmony with modern science than Darwinism or neoDarwinism. He emphasizes the importance for evolution of inner direction and the self-organizing capacities of life, a view that is better able to account for the chaotic nature of the evolutionary process and the inherent propensity of complex dynamic systems to grow more complex with time. Many examples of plants and animals support this idea, and Wesson includes both carefully documented scientific facts and intriguing anecdotes about the odd aberrations in natural selection.Books by Robert Wesson include Cosmos and Metacosmos.

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Beyond Natural Selection Robert Wesson A Bradford Book The MIT Press - photo 1
Beyond Natural Selection
Robert Wesson
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

title:Beyond Natural Selection
author:Wesson, Robert G.
publisher:MIT Press
isbn10 | asin:0262731029
print isbn13:9780262731027
ebook isbn13:9780585003481
language:English
subjectEvolution, Natural selection, Adaptation (Biology)
publication date:1993
lcc:QH366.2.W47 1993eb
ddc:575.01
subject:Evolution, Natural selection, Adaptation (Biology)
Fourth printing, 1997
First MIT Press paperback edition, 1993
1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
This book was set in Palatino by DEKR Corporation and printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wesson, Robert G.
Beyond natural selection / Robert Wesson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-262-23161-1 (HB), 0-262-73102-9 (PB)
1. Evolution. 2. Natural selection. 3. Adaptation (Biology)
I. Title.
QH366.2.W47 1991
575.0 l-dc20
90-21977
CIP
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1 The Conventional Theory: "It Is Solved"
1
The "Neo-Darwinist Synthesis"
5
Variants of the Theory
12
The Commitment to Darwinism
16
The Religious Challenge
19
2 The Universe of Complexity
22
Limits of Reductionism
22
Higher Laws
26
The New Outlook of Science
30
Modernizing Darwinism
35
3 The Cryptic Record
38
Problems of Origins
38
The Leap into the Air
45
Between Land and Ocean
50
4 Inventive Nature
54
The Wonder of Life
54
Remarkable Structures
59

Page vi
Fantastic Behaviors
68
Intelligent Instincts
74
Problems of Creativity
79
5 Inconsistent Nature
84
Adaptation
84
Nonadaptation
88
Infertility
96
Premature Death
102
6 The Question of Sex
106
The Role of Sex
106
Sexual Practices
111
Why Sex?
115
7 Sociality
121
Social Animals
121
Social Insects
124
Theory of Altruism
127
Social Specialization
135
8 Dynamics of Evolution
138
The Genetic Medley
138
The Problem of Information
142
Attractors in the Genome
144
Variation
150
The Role of Chaos
155
Feedback
157
Summary
170
9 The Power of Attractors
172
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