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Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life

Autor Jonathan Silvertown
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 apr 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198876397
ISBN-10: 0198876394
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 165 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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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.
For long, the dominant explanation for the evolution of life has been that change came about as a result of 'ruthless competition'. But there were always voices arguing that cooperation, not just competition, was the motor of change. Cooperative behaviour has now been observed in organisms from microbes to plants and humans, all empowered by those famous selfish genes. We are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in the life sciences. Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a report from the frontiers of research, one that evolutionary ecologist Jonathan Silvertown is well-placed to make. He draws on a wealth of examples, some familiar, many less so, to document cooperation in action. A tour de force of synthesis.
Selfish Genes to Social Beings is at its best in the long, fascinating discussions of the complexity of cooperative behaviours across the natural world... Silvertown can talk as easily about the compounds making up your genes as most people can about yesterday's football match.

Notă biografică

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.