The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin

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

Helena Cronin

508 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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