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Cooperation and Its Evolution by Kim Sterelny

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Part of Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues In Biology And Psychology series

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Cooperation and Its Evolution by Kim Sterelny

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.

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Kim Sterelny is a Philosophy Senior Professor at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language is his co-authored book with Michael Devitt.

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ISBN 13 9780262552783
ISBN 10 0262552787
Title Cooperation and Its Evolution
Author Kim Sterelny
Series Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues In Biology And Psychology
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher MIT Press Ltd
Year published 2024-08-06
Number of pages 592
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.