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Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

A. W. F. Edwards is one of the most influential mathematical geneticists in the history of the discipline. One of the last students of R.A. Fisher, Edwards pioneered the statistical analysis of phylogeny in collaboration with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, and helped establish...

Gender Quotas as Game Changers for the Recruitment, Selection, and Performance of Elected Politicians

Andrea S. Aldrich , William T. Daniel

As political systems around the world implement gender quotas to balance women and men's elected representation, new opportunities and expectations for how both men and women are recruited, selected, and promoted by political parties are created. This book demonstrates...

Gender Quotas as Game Changers for the Recruitment, Selection, and Performance of Elected Politicians

Andrea S. Aldrich , William T. Daniel

As political systems around the world implement gender quotas to balance women and men's elected representation, new opportunities and expectations for how both men and women are recruited, selected, and promoted by political parties are created. This book demonstrates...

Selection Criteria in Party Leadership Elections in Greece: The Open Primaries of PASOK, ND and SYRIZA

Panos A. Koliastasis

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the voting criteria of selectors in Greek political parties’ leadership elections, focusing on open and semi-open primaries. It examines seven multi-candidate leadership contests organised by the centre-left PASOK, the...

Neuroscience of Attention: Attentional Control and Selection

George R. Mangun

Mutual Fund Selection

Moshe Levy , Richard Roll

The vast majority of investors in the capital market do so, at least in part, via mutual funds. In the US market alone, there are currently thousands of mutual funds to choose from. Thus, the task of mutual fund selection is of central importance. It is a notoriously...

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

Michael F. Ashby

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Sixth Edition, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the...

Environment and Selection of Technology

Zhenghong Xiao , Xiaomin Xu

This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology.This study first divides West China into four regions, i.e., the...

Natural Selection and Social Theory

Robert Trivers

Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal...

Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

Peter Godfrey-Smith

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and...

Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection

Ingo Schlupp

When Charles Darwin first proposed Sexual Selection Theory, he suggested two mechanisms: competition among males and choice by females. Although their importance is long established and extremely well understood, their mirror images have remained largely...

Evolution and the Levels of Selection

Samir Okasha

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in evolutionary biology over the levels of selection, focusing on conceptual, philosophical and...

Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

Peter Godfrey-Smith

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and...

Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits

Michael Lynch , Bruce Walsh

Quantitative traits-be they morphological or physiological characters, aspects of behavior, or genome-level features such as the amount of RNA or protein expression for a specific gene-usually show considerable variation within and among populations.Quantitative...

Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems

Alan F. Dixson

Comparative analyses of the anatomy, reproductive physiology, and behaviour of extant primates and other mammals can offer important insights into the origins of human sexual behaviour, allowing us to reconstruct the origins of human mating systems, the evolution of...

Selection

Graham Bell

This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples drawn from microbial, plant and animal systems. It incorporates insights from remarkable recent advances in theoretical...

Natural Selection and Beyond

George Beccaloni , Charles H. Smith

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. His link to Darwin as co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection alone would have secured him a place in history, but he went on to complete work...

Natural Selection

George C. Williams

In this work, George C. Williams--one of evolutionary biology's most distinguished scholars--examines the mechanisms and meaning of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his own perspective on modern evolutionary theory, including discussions of the gene as...

Supernatural Selection

Matt Rossano

In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster bestseller, The God Delusion. This atheist manifesto sparked a furious reaction from believers, who have responded with numerous books of their own. By pitting science against religion, however, this debate...

The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Neal Schmitt

Employee selection has long stood at the practical forefront of industrial/organizational psychology. Today's social, business, and economic climates require ongoing adaptations by those who select organizations' personnel, and research on the topic helps gauge the...