Koos Boomsma (Professor of Ecology and Professor of Ecol Evolution

Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 194mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746188
• ISBN-10: 0198746180
• Artikelnr.: 63589133

Autorenporträt

Koos 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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