Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
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Introduction -- What is group selection? -- Group selection in the 1970s -- Career beginnings and science after the thesis -- Experimental studies of population heritability -- Population ecology and population heritability -- The evolution of sociality -- Calibrating the laboratory to nature -- Experimental studies of Wright's shifting balance theory -- Beyond the shifting balancing theory.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"With Adaptation in Metapopulations, Michael J. Wade explores a key component of this new understanding of evolution: interaction. Synthesizing decades of work in the lab and in the field in a book both empirically grounded and underpinned by a strong conceptual framework, Wade looks at the role of interaction across scales from gene selection to selection at the level of individuals, kin, and groups. In so doing, he integrates molecular and organismal biology to reveal the true complexities of evolutionary dynamics from genes to metapopulations"--Amazon.com.