Cooperation and Its Evolution

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ID23402180
EditoresKim Sterelny (0000-0003-3159-6698), Richard Joyce (0000-0001-7350-2456), Brett Calcott (0000-0003-4164-5158), Ben Fraser
Ano2013
Páginas592
Data de publicação2013-02-22
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCooperation and Its Evolution (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9033.001.0001
OpenAlexW1542408921
ISBN9780262313032
Open LibraryOL29673799M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

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

Political science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Biological Evolution · Cooperation · Cooperative Behavior · Cooperativeness · Evolution · Evolution (Biology) · Evolutionary psychology · Philosophy