Jonathan Birch

The Philosophy of Social Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. Jonathan Birch explores how the three key explanatory ideas of social evolution theory - Hamilton's rule, kin selection, and inclusive fitness - can illuminate our understanding of the social world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 144mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198733058
• ISBN-10: 0198733054
• Artikelnr.: 48687184

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Birch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. His research mainly concerns the evolution of social behaviour, with a particular focus on the work of W. D. Hamilton. He has published widely on various topics in the philosophy of the life sciences, in journals such as The American Naturalist, Biological Reviews, Philosophy of Science and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Jumping into the River. . .
I. Foundations
1: Conceptualizing Social Behaviour
2: Hamilton's Rule as an Organizing Framework
3: The Rule under Attack: Tautology, Prediction and Causality
4: Kin Selection and Group Selection
5: Two Conceptions of Social Fitness
II. Extensions
6: Gene Mobility and the Concept of Relatedness
7: The Multicellular Organism as a Social Phenomenon
8: Cultural Relatedness and Human Social Evolution
. . .and Climbing Out Again
Appendix: The Price equation