Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind - Hardcover

Corning, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9813230932 ISBN 13: 9789813230934

Verlag: WSPC, 2017

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Páginas:302Géneros:12:PD:Science:generalissues12:PSAJ:Evolution12:PSC:DevelopmentalbiologySinopsis:co-authorof(amongothers)EvolutioninFourDimensions ,",Nothingabouttheevolutionofbiologicalcomplexitymakessenseexceptinthelightofsynergy.",PeterCorning',snewbookisbeinghailedasamajorcontributiontowhatisperhapsthegreatestshiftinourunderstandingofevolutionsinceTheOriginofSpecies.It',satourdeforcethattakesusonasynergy-guidedtourofthehistoryoflife.AsCorningputsit,",lifeonEarthhasbeenasynergisticphenomenonfromthegetgo.",Corningalsoshowshowsynergyhasbeenakeytohumanevolution,includingtheriseofcomplexmodernsocieties.",Cooperationmayhavebeenthevehicle,butsynergywasthedriver.",Aswenowfaceatippingpointandanothermajortransitioninevolution,Corningoffersusasynergy-basedroad-maptothefuture.",Oneofthegreattake-homelessonsfromtheepicofevolutionisthatcooperationproducessynergy,andsynergyisthewayforward.Thearcofevolutionbendstowardsynergy.",_,

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In this complex and intelligent book, Peter Corning presents a grand view of the evolution of complexity, eloquently arguing that it is based on the cumulative combination of the effects of cooperation on synergies among systems. He provides an inclusive synthesis of evolutionary theory, re-interpreting classical views of Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution in terms of evolving synergetic interactions, and offers a new way of thinking about the major transitions in evolution and about human evolution. Brave, well‐written, and based on more than thirty years of deep reflection, Corning's vision stretches onto the future of our planet and our species and suggests new ways of anticipating and facing them. --Professor Eva Jablonka, Tel-Aviv University and co-author of (among others) Evolution in Four Dimensions

Peter Corning's book is a marvelous addition to the growing literature about the emerging alternative to gene-centric neo-Darwinism in evolutionary biology. We would not exist were it not for the cooperative behaviour of living organisms, from microorganisms to the largest mammals and trees. The progressive evolution of multiple levels of organisation in living systems has harnessed blind chance. This book tells you how (and why) this occurred. --Denis Noble, CBE, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci, Burden Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology, Oxford University, Emeritus, and author of (among others) The Music of Life

Evolution is the story of the development of complex organic and social systems. The key to understanding this complexity, Peter Corning shows, is synergy fitness-enhancing cooperation among heterogeneous parts. Synergistic Selection draws on the broad history of evolutionary thinking and is buttressed by contemporary empirical evidence. It is an eloquent refutation of the standard story of selfish genes. While abounding in biological detail, Synergistic Selection is easily accessible to a lay audience. --Herbert Gintis, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and co-author of (among others) A Cooperative Species

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'Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy.' Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, 'life on Earth has been a synergistic phenomenon from the get go.' Corning also shows how synergy has been a key to human evolution, including the rise of complex modern societies. 'Cooperation may have been the vehicle, but synergy was the driver.' As we now face a tipping point and another major transition in evolution, Corning offers us a synergy-based road-map to the future. 'One of the great take-home lessons from the epic of evolution is that cooperation produces synergy, and synergy is the way forward. The arc of evolution bends toward synergy.'

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• Verlag: WSPC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9813230932
• ISBN 13: 9789813230934
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302