Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution

By G. Bell. 2008

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Subfields: Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Modelling evolution in manufacturing: A biological analogy (2008, background): “Selection will favor attributes such as beauty, strength, or wit only to the extent that they are associated with increased fitness [21].”
Terrorism: The relevance of the rational choice model (2006, background): “Unilateral sacrifices for the sake of blood relatives are often selfishly optimal from an evolutionary standpoint (Bell, 1997).”
Causal Selection and the Pathway Concept (2018, background): “This fixed order is sometimes referred to as a “processing chain” that involves “a number of steps whichmust occur in a certain order” (Bell 2008, 113).”
Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology (2010, background): “SELECTION 199 Use of the term selection to describe deterministic fitness differences among individuals 200 of different species (Table 1) requires some explanation as it is not yet commonplace in ecology 201 (but see Loreau and Hector 2001; Norberg et al. 2001; Shipley et al. 2006; Bell 2008).”
Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions (2009, background): “As Darwin (1859) realized, this massive discrepancy between the number of offspring produced 1 For a more advanced treatment, see Bell (1997, 2008) or consult any of the major undergraduate-level evolutionary biology or population genetics textbooks.”
The effect of elevated CO2 on growth and competition in experimental phytoplankton communities (2011, methodology): “The measure is based on the classical method for the calculation of a selection coefficient (Bell, 2008, p. 62) when measuring competition between two genotypes or species.”