Sex and Evolution. (Mpb-8), Volume 8

by George C. Williams

Book Overview

This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, and persists because there is no ready means of developing an asexual alternative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691081522
• ISBN13: 9780691081526
• Release Date: March 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"