Cooperation and its evolution

by Sterelny, Kim

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Title Statements

Full title :Cooperation and its evolution / edited by Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, and Ben Fraser.

Summary

This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans. Part I ("Agents and Environments") investigates the connections of social cooperation in social organizations to the conditions that make cooperation profitable and stable, focusing on the interactions of agent, population, and environment. Part II ("Agents and Mechanisms") focuses on how proximate mechanisms emerge and operate in the evolutionary process and how they shape evolutionary trajectories. Throughout the book, certain themes emerge that demonstrate the ubiquity of questions regarding cooperation in evolutionary biology: the generation and division of the profits of cooperation; transitions in individuality; levels of selection, from gene to organism; and the "human cooperation explosion" that makes our own social behavior particularly puzzling from an evolutionary perspective.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:577 Seiten : : Illustrationen.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262018531, 0262018535
oclc:ocn842199342
LC Classification:QH366.2
Dewey Decimal:576.8

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Aufsatzsammlung Biological Evolution Cooperation Cooperative Behavior Évolution Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy Evolutionary psychology Evolutionsbiologie Evolutionspsychologie Kooperatives Verhalten Psychologie évolutionniste