Ebook: The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Editorial Reviews
Review
"The arguments and counterarguments will most certainly

generate a good deal of heat, but also, let's hope,. . . . even more light."--The American Scholar


"Roughgarden's new theory is likely to end up an important extension to existing thought."--New Scientist


"Succeeds in re-opening issues long thought closed.. . . .(Challenging) what we thought we already know."--Nature


"Argues that. . . . sexual selection as a form of self-seeking improvement on the part of each beast is a myth."--New Yorker
From the Inside Flap
"Roughgarden's unique and forceful vision issues a timely, cogent challenge to the predominant world view that selfishness and conflict are the norm in adaptive evolution."--Michael J. Wade, coauthor of Mating Systems and Strategies

"No other book offers such a sustained argument against sexual selection theory and provides such a compelling alternative--substantively important and exciting."--Jonathan Kaplan, coauthor of Making Sense of Evolution

"This may be the most important book, philosophically speaking, on evolutionary theory in a decade. If Roughgarden is right, males and females evolved as allies, not enemies, and evolutionary theory needs a rethink because competition evolves in a cooperative world, not the other way around."--James Griesemer, President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology