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The Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
Author: Joan Roughgarden
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Published: 09/03/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Life Sciences, Social Science, Gender Studies
Synopsis
Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universial sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of new-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.
