Jonathan Silvertown (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Instit

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Selfish Genes to Social Beings

A Cooperative History of Life

Beschreibung

Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning with the heroic story of rescuers in the post-earthquake rubble of Mexico City, Jonathan Slivertown reveals the universal rules of cooperation that apply throughout the history of life.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780198876397
• ISBN-10: 0198876394
• Artikelnr.: 68573804