Cooperative evolution : reclaiming Darwin's vision / Christopher Bryant, Valerie A. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Christopher, 1936-2021, author.

Brown, Valerie A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Acton ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Words and Phrases

Introduction

1. In Homage to Darwin

2. All Knowledge is Metaphor

3. Intelligent Evolution and Intelligence

4. How Evolution Works

5. The Past is a Foreign Country

6. We Do Things Differently Now

7. Energy: Where it all Begins

8. Everything is Connected

9. Walling In and Walling Out

10. Becoming Human

11. Inheriting the Earth

12. Our Closest Cousins

13. Glimpses of the Future

14. Weaving the Golden Net

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781760464295

1760464295

OCLC:

1260348436

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access