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

Corning, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9813234601 ISBN 13: 9789813234604

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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'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: 9813234601
• ISBN 13: 9789813234604
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302