The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...

gene may refer to: Selfish gene theory, the gene-centered view of evolution The Selfish Gene, a book by Richard Dawkins discussing the selfish gene theory...

development of the gene-centered view of evolution in the 1960s. Williams' 1957 paper Pleiotropy, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Senescence is one of the...

biologists, outlines a gene-centered view of evolution, disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including...

J.B.S. Haldane proposed the concept of kin selection, a form of altruism from the gene-centered view of evolution, arguing that animals should sacrifice...

may refer to: Replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centered view of evolution Replicator (self-replication)...

Formalizing the gene-centered view of evolution Adv. Complex Syst. 2 (3) 277-281 (1999). D. Harmon, B. Stacey, Y. Bar-Yam, Y. Bar-Yam, Networks of economic market...

existence of altruism, an insight that was a key part of the development of the gene-centered view of evolution. He is considered one of the forerunners of sociobiology...

do evolve. The gene-centered view of evolution normally refers to selection among different alleles of the same gene. However, gene families also differ...

Cambrian explosion – camouflage – Sean B. Carroll – catagenesis – gene-centered view of evolution – cephalization – Sergei Chetverikov – chronobiology – chronospecies...

some cases, most traits are influenced by multiple genes in a quantitative or epistatic manner. Evolution can occur if there is genetic variation within a...

Selfish Gene. More thorough discussions of this version of a gene can be found in the articles Genetics and Gene-centered view of evolution. The molecular...

cistrons and genes, in this gene-centered view of evolution. Defining a Cistron as a segment of DNA coding for a polypeptide, the structural gene in a transcription...

field of molecular evolution developed, based on protein sequences and immunological tests, and later incorporating RNA and DNA studies. The gene-centred...

through the gene-centered view of evolution, which emphasizes an interpretation of natural selection from the point of view of the gene which acts as...

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the rise of the gene-centered view of evolution, spurred by George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966). Debate over units of selection...

compared; this is known as the substitutional load or cost of selection. Gene-centered view of evolution Inclusive fitness Lineage selection Natural selection...

(evolution) – Theoretical limit on rate of mutation Gene-centered view of evolution – Theory of the "selfish gene" Genome evolution – Process by which a genome changes...

Prior to the gene-centered view of evolution, eusociality was seen as paradoxical: if adaptive evolution unfolds by differential reproduction of individual...

The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...

widespread attention until several decades later. Inspired by the gene-centred views of evolution popularized by George Williams and Richard Dawkins, two papers...

parasitic. According to the gene centered view of evolution, most genes are "selfish" only insofar as to compete with other genes or alleles but usually they...

pressures acting solely on the individual. A gene-centered view of evolution proposes that behaviours that enabled a gene to become wider established within a...

increasingly studied with the gene-centered view of evolution by considering inclusive fitness (the carrying on of one's genes through one's family members)...

fitness theory, emphasizing a gene-centered view of evolution. Hamilton noted that genes can increase the replication of copies of themselves into the next...

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single unifying gene-centered view of evolution and making earlier explanations based on group selection obsolete. A classic example is that of stotting in...

recipient. This perspective reflects what is referred to as the gene-centered view of evolution and demonstrates that group selection is a very weak selective...