The Essential Tension Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution /

'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one collective unit emer...

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1. Verfasser: Bahar, Sonya (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands , 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:The Frontiers Collection,
Schlagworte:
Sociophysics.
Econophysics.
Evolutionary biology.
Physics.
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
ISBN:9789402410549
ISSN:1612-3018
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The History of an Idea
  • Crowds
  • Classification
  • 'Time, just Time': Integrating up the Great Chain of Being
  • The Battle of the Parts
  • Synthesis?
  • Selfish Creatures, Huddled together for Warmth
  • The Vanishing Point Appears
  • Part II: At the Frontier
  • Flocking, Swarming and Communicating
  • Quorum Sensing and Biofilms
  • Multicellularity: Dicty
  • Multicellularity: Volvox
  • Experimental Evolution
  • Part III: Beyond the Barricade
  • Cooperation and Competition: One Level Sitting on Another
  • Evol = f(Evol)
  • Spandrels, Exaptations and Raw Material
  • The Essential Tension
  • Index.

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