Selfish Genes to Social Beings

A Cooperative History of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society, Silvertown digs deeper, to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs, to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together, to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-11
Mått:165 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198876397

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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.

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The world may seem brutish and selfish, but Jonathan Silvertown's Selfish Genes to Social Beings celebrates the evolutionary virtues of cooperation. A leading ecologist and evolutionary biologist, Silvertown weaves together science, history, literature, and storytelling to sing the praises of cooperation. Written with warmth and wit, this book provides a much-needed antidote to the unfair stereotype of nature, red in tooth and claw.

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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

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