Selfish Genes to Social Beings - A Cooperative History of Life

Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning with the heroic story of rescuers in the post-earthquake rubble of Mexico City, Jonathan Slivertown reveals the universal rules of cooperation that apply throughout the history of life.

Sommario

• Part One: Groups


• 1: Topos and Narcos


• 2: A river of glowing light


• 3: From selfish genes to social beings


• 4: Big steak or big mistake?


• Part Two: Individuals


• 5: Matryoshka


• 6: Odd couples


• 7: Phytosympathies


• 8: Good Companions


• Part Three: Cells


• 9: A Brand-New Bag


• 10: Three-card trick


• 11: That green new thing


• 12: From solitude to solidarity


• Part Four: Genes


• 13: Ordering the primordial soup


• 14: Peas and Justice


• 15: Naked selfishness


• 16: Coda: the cornucopia of cooperation


• Glossary


• References

Info autore

Jonathan Silvertown is an evolutionary biologist who has published widely on plant population biology. He is the author of eight books, including Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution and, most recently, The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh. Formerly Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh, and Chair of Technology-Enhanced Science Education in Biological Sciences, he is now, following retirement, an Honorary Professor in the Institute.

Riassunto

Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning with the heroic story of rescuers in the post-earthquake rubble of Mexico City, Jonathan Slivertown reveals the universal rules of cooperation that apply throughout the history of life.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Silvertown , Jonathan Silvertown, Jonathan (Honorary Professor Silvertown, Silvertown Jonathan
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9780198876397
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887639-7
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics (non-medical), Evolution / Evolutionary biology