1st Edition
The Masterpiece of Nature The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality
By Graham Bell
Copyright 1982
638 Pages
by
Routledge
638 Pages
by
Routledge
638 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution. The book suggests that sex evolved, not as the result of normal Darwinian processes of natural selection, but through competition between populations or species - a hypothesis elsewhere almost universally discredited. The book also discusses... Read more
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 The Paradox of Sexuality
2. Theories of Sex
3. Parthenogenesis and Vegetative Reproduction in Multicellular Animals
4. A Comparative and Experimental Critique of the Theories
5. Epiphenomena of Sexuality
6. Metagenetics
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Biography
Graham Bell
