
Cooperative Evolution
Reclaiming Darwin's Vision
ANU Press
Published on 16. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-76046-428-8 (ISBN)
Description
Cooperative Evolution offers a fresh account of evolution consistent with Charles Darwin's own account of a cooperative, inter-connected, buzzing and ever-changing world. Told in accessible language, treating evolutionary change as a cooperative enterprise brings some surprising shifts from the traditional emphasis on the dominance of competition. The book covers many evolutionary changes reconsidered as cooperation. These include the cooperative origins of life, evolution as a spiral rather than a ladder or tree, humans as a part of natural systems rather than the purpose, relationships between natural and social change, and the role of the individual in adaptive radiation onto new ground. The story concludes with a projection of human evolution from the past into the future.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Canberra
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
1 Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76046-428-8 (9781760464288)
DOI
10.22459/CE.2021
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