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Natural security : a Darwinian approach to a dangerous world /

Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from nature to our own toughest security problems...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sagarin, Rafe, Taylor, Terence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origins of natural security / Raphael D. Sagarin
  • Living with risk / Terence Taylor
  • Security, unpredictability, and evolution: policy and the history of life / Geerat J. Vermeij
  • From bacteria to belief: immunity and security / Luis P. Villarreal
  • Corporations and bureaucracies under a biological lens / Elizabeth M. Prescott
  • Selection, security, and evolutionary international relations / Gregory P. Dietl
  • Militants and martyrs: evolutionary perspectives on religion and terrorism / Richard Sosis, Candace S. Alcorta
  • Causes of and solutions of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism / Bradley A. Thayer
  • The power of moral belief / Scott Atran
  • Fourteen security lessons from antipredator behavior / Daniel T. Blumstein
  • Population models and counterinsurgency strategies / Dominic D. P. Johnson, Joshua S. Madin
  • The infectiousness of terrorist ideology: insights from ecology and epidemiology / Kevin D. Lafferty, Katherine F. Smith, Elizabeth M. P. Madin
  • Paradigm shifts in security strategy: why does it take disasters to trigger change? / Dominic D. P. Johnson, Elizabeth M. P. Madin
  • Network analysis links parts to the whole / Ferenc Jordán
  • A holistic view of natural security / Raphael D. Sagarin.