Cooperation and Its Evolution - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262552787 ISBN 13 : 9780262552783

Editeur : MIT Press, 2024

Synopsis

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.

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.

Bradford Books imprint

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the coauthor of Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language and the author of The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.

Richard Joyce is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and author of The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006) and The Myth of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Brett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011).

Ben Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Program at Australian National University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262552787
• ISBN 13: 9780262552783
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 586
• Éditeur: Sterelny Kim, Joyce Richard, Calcott Brett
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