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.
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.
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.
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Part One: Groups 1: Topos and Narcos 2: A river of glowing light 3: From selfish genes to social beings 4: Big steak or big mistake? Part Two: Individuals 5: Matryoshka 6: Odd couples 7: Phytosympathies 8: Good Companions Part Three: Cells 9: A Brand-New Bag 10: Three-card trick 11: That green new thing 12: From solitude to solidarity Part Four: Genes 13: Ordering the primordial soup 14: Peas and Justice 15: Naked selfishness 16: Coda: the cornucopia of cooperation Glossary References
Part One: Groups 1: Topos and Narcos 2: A river of glowing light 3: From selfish genes to social beings 4: Big steak or big mistake? Part Two: Individuals 5: Matryoshka 6: Odd couples 7: Phytosympathies 8: Good Companions Part Three: Cells 9: A Brand-New Bag 10: Three-card trick 11: That green new thing 12: From solitude to solidarity Part Four: Genes 13: Ordering the primordial soup 14: Peas and Justice 15: Naked selfishness 16: Coda: the cornucopia of cooperation Glossary References
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