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Cooperation and its evolution /

This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sterelny, Kim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT Press, ©2013.
©2013
Colección:Life and mind.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The evolution of individualistic norms / Don Ross
  • Timescales, symmetry, and uncertainty reduction in the origins of hierarchy in biological systems / Jessica C. Flack [and others]
  • On depending on fish for a living, and other difficulties of living sustainably / Hanna Kokko and Katja Heubel
  • Life in interesting times : cooperation and collective action in the Holocene / Kim Sterelny
  • The birth of hierarchy / Paul Seabright
  • Territoriality and loss aversion : the evolutionary roots of property rights / Herbert Gintis
  • Cooperation and biological markets : the power of partner choice / Ronald Noë and Bernhard Voekl
  • False advertising in biological markets : partner choice and the problem of reliability / Ben Fraser
  • MHC-mediated benefits of trade : a biomolecular approach to cooperation in the marketplace / Haim Ofek
  • What we don't know about the evolution of cooperation in animals / Deborah M. gordon
  • Task partitioning : is it a useful concept? / Adam G. Hart
  • Cooperative breeding in birds : toward a richer conceptual framework / Andrew Cockburn
  • Why the proximate-ultimate distinction is misleading, and why it matters for understanding the evolution of cooperation / Brett Calcott
  • Emergence of a signaling network with probe and adjust / Brian Skyrms and Simon M. Huttegger
  • Bacterial social life : information processing characteristics and cooperation coevolve / Livio Riboli Sasco, François Taddei, and Sam Brown
  • Two modes of transgenerational information transmission / Nicholas Shea
  • What can imitation do for cooperation? / Cecilia Heyes
  • The role of learning in punishment, prosociality, and human uniqueness / Fiery Cushman
  • Our pigheaded core : how we became smarter to be influenced by other people / Hugo Mercier
  • Altruistic behaviors from a developmental and comparative perspective / Felix Warneken
  • Culture-gene evolution, large-scale cooperation, and the shaping of human social psychology / Maciek Chudek, Wanying Zhao, and Joseph Henrich
  • Suicide bombers, weddings, and prison tattoos : an evolutionary perspective on subjective commitment and objective commitment / Daniel M.T. Fessler and Katinka Quintelier
  • Communicative functions of shame and guilt / June P. Tangney [and others]
  • Moral disgust and the tribal instincts hypothesis / Daniel R. Kelly
  • Evolution, motivation, and moral beliefs / Matteo Mameli
  • The many moral nativisms / Richard Joyce.