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This thought-provoking text presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of social evolution that underlie the major transitions, explaining how the basic theory underpinning social evolution - inclusive fitness theory - is central to understanding each event.
Sommario
- Preface
- 1: A Punctuated History of Understanding Social Adaptation
- 2: The Gene's Eye View that Forged a Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
- 3: A Reappraisal of Progress in Evolution
- 4: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Major Evolutionary Transitions
- 5: Inclusive Fitness Drives Cooperation for Mutual Benefit
- 6: The Multicellular Organisms and Colonial Superorganisms
- 7: The Free-Living Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
- 8: Adaptation, Control Information, and the Human Condition
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Jacobus J. Boomsma is Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Biology, where he is the Director of the Centre for Social Evolution. He is an Elected Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1998) and was awarded a Knighthood from the Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog (2015). He received the Quadrennial Hamilton Award for outstanding lifetime achievement by the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (2018).
His principle research interests include Social Evolution, Conflict/Cooperation, Mating systems, Coevolution, Conservation, Genomics, and Evolutionary Medicine.
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This thought-provoking text presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of social evolution that underlie the major transitions, explaining how the basic theory underpinning social evolution - inclusive fitness theory - is central to understanding each event.
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Anyone interested in social evolution or the major transitions will find much of interest. The empirical overviews alone could launch numerous social evolution PhDs...It provides a comprehensive and historical review of the development of evolutionary theory, as well as an insightful discussion of progress and complexity in evolution. These topics would be of use to a wide range of readers from scientists to philosophers.
