{"product_id":"cooperation-and-its-evolution-isbn-9780262552783","title":"Cooperation and Its Evolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I (\"Agents and Environments\") investigates the connections of social cooperation in social organizations to the conditions that make cooperation profitable and stable, focusing on the interactions of agent, population, and environment. Part II (\"Agents and Mechanisms\") focuses on how proximate mechanisms emerge and operate in the evolutionary process and how they shape evolutionary trajectories. Throughout the book, certain themes emerge that demonstrate the ubiquity of questions regarding cooperation in evolutionary biology: the generation and division of the profits of cooperation; transitions in individuality; levels of selection, from gene to organism; and the \"human cooperation explosion\" that makes our own social behavior particularly puzzling from an evolutionary perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBradford Books imprintKim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLanguage and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Joyce is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Morality \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press, 2006) and \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Morality\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2001).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU\/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of \u003ci\u003eThe Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Program at Australian National University.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302558486757,"sku":"NP9780262552783","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552783.jpg?v=1767724116","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cooperation-and-its-evolution-isbn-9780262552783","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}