Scandinavian Legends & Folk-Tales

by Gwyn Jones

Book Overview

The "ant" and the "peacock" stand for two puzzles in Darwinism--altruism and sexual selection. How can natural selection favor those, such as the worker ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favor of the public-spirited ways of the commune? And how can "peacocks"--flamboyant, ornamental and apparently useless--be tolerated by the grimly economical Darwinian reaper? Helena Cronin has a deep understanding of today's answers to these riddles and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192741241
• ISBN13: 9780192741240
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher