Sociobiology and Bioeconomics
Subtitle: The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 19, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9783540653806
Subjects: Anthropology; Biological anthropology; Economic theory & philosophy; Sociology - General; Economics - Theory; Economic Theory; Sociobiology; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Social Darwinism; Evolution (Biology); Anthropology - General; Bioeconomics; Biologie; Biology; Bioökonomie; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Evolutionary Theory; Evolutionstheorie; Neo-Darwinian Synthesis; Economics - General; Evolutionary economics
First sentence: When Darwin read Malthus he came to realize that evolutionary change occurs because of a special kind of competition - reproductive competition -between organisms of the same species.